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What are the languages you wish you could use for work?

Pan Chasinga on February 12, 2020

For me it's Rust and Erlang.

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Robert Moskal

clojure, no doubt.

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Cole Walker

Definitely Haskell, maybe Go.

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Pan Chasinga

They are both very different.

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Cole Walker

That's true, but I think both are interesting and I'd like the opportunity to use them professionally!

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Zachary Stone

I would love to work with Python, get back into React again and then do a bit of functional programming with something like Elm.

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Björn Grunde

Rust and Elixir!

Tho now it looks like we are gonna drop some of the horrible legacy projects written in php 5.3, since they don't scale or manage concurrency at all and build from scratch with elixir. yay

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Luke Bayliss

ReasonML!

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Akash Shivram

Go and Rust

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Avalander

Haskell or any lisp dialect.

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MurrayVarey

Anything but C++. "Fortran you say? I'm in!"

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Austin

Definitely ReasonML and Rust.

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Kyle Jones

Go, Rust or Kotlin - all three are pretty modern and relevant right now that I'd love to dive in and play around

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jbhalsod

Network automation enthu, so i would love to work with python- netmiko lib