Programming

It's not really a coding language but I use SQL a lot for work. Occasionally Python and R. As you can probably imagine with this list, I'm a data scientist.

My favorite to work with is actually autohotkey, which I use to automate stuff, because it can be a fun little challenge to figure out how to automate based on the system it's running on and what I'm trying to do.

Favorite: Ruby, because everything makes sense. Once you get that "everything is an object", the rest just falls naturally into place. No other language has been so intuitive from that point.

Regularly use: JavaScript. I hate it because absolutely nothing makes sense. I don't even understand enough to explain more than that, yet somehow I'm able to copy/paste things that do work and tweak them enough until they do what I want. At least some of the time.

• Rust and Python. Python for work
• Rust is by far the best language I've ever used and I've used a lot of them. It really can do everything and is reliable and safe as well.
• I want to convert all of our projects at work to Rust as well if I had it my way entirely. Only thing to do is train my team on using it.

Regularly use: Common Lisp (SBCL mainly) and Crystal.

Favorite to work with: same as above. They seem to match how I think well, so it's easy to solve problems in them. Their speed is also a nice bonus, as is Common Lisp's debugging and image-based development. I also really like how Crystal feels like a dynamic language (it's very reminiscent of Ruby), yet is still statically typed and compiled.

Interest in trying: m68k assembly for some ungodly reason lol

At work, I use both Python and C++. At home I also try to use Rust where I can; but mostly C++, Python, and C# (largely for game engines)

I regularly work with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and PHP. Of those, C# and TypeScript are my favorites. I'm also planning to try out Rust eventually, but atm I don't have time to learn such a complex language.

• C# - Very clean and concise syntax, performant runtime, excellent standard libraries and tooling. Later versions (.NET Core and newer) have top-tier async, generics, and DI implementations. Biggest downsides are reliance on a runtime and lack of union types. Ever tried to implement ActivityPub (or any other polymorphic API) in C#? Not a good time.
• TypeScript - the best type system that I've ever worked with. With a bit of thought and planning, you can model complex requirements directly into the type system. The language is comfortable and easy to use, although some advanced types can become hard to read. Its biggest flaw is that its tied to JavaScript. I would love to one day see a language that's basically just C# + TypeScript's type system.
• JavaScript - I only use it in legacy code. For anything else, I just use TypeScript.
• PHP - I actually have a fondness for PHP, even though its not one of my favorite languages. I'm still maintaining one hobby website in full-custom PHP 8. The language has developed a lot recently and has resolved many of the classic problems that made it so awful in the PHP 5 era. Its well on its way to becoming a viable option once again.
• Rust - Rust is the first language that I believe has a real chance of displacing C++. It solves the same problems with dramatically more safety, and has all the bells and whistles of a modern language to boot. I probably wont use it much in my work (I mostly develop LOB apps and websites), but I do expect it to gain widespread use within low-level and high-performance applications over the next 10 years.

I teach a class taught in OCaml. Despite that, I don't really like OCaml. It's good for education but IMO not that great for actually using it. My brother works at Jane Street and even he agrees... Like, it's fine, but not great.

Beyond that I make regular use of Haskell and Python for my graduate research and personal projects. I recently took a course in Java, but unless I don't have a choice, I'd rather use Kotlin. I'm also involved in the hardware simulator Turing Complete, so a lot of my side projects lately have been ETCa assembly programs.

I want to learn Rust and Scala, probably in that order.

edit: I also quite like Scheme and I used it for advent of code last year. Unfortunately I don't get opportunities to use it much, but if I ever get to teach a compilers course, I want to try the "reverse nanopass" approach that is currently used, I believe, at Brown University.

For work: Java (legacy projects, JSF, Old Spring versions) and JavaScript.

For stuff y do for friends and myself: Typescript, PHP (WP, Laravel)

I’d say I’m most productive in Typescript right now.

I’m learning some Rust. Want to look into Go soon.

• Prehistoric C++: Core language for my main project at work. Unfortunately we're stuck with C++98, but it's still a massive improvement on C.
• C: For some of the older parts of the aforementioned project
• Python: For test automation for the aforementioned project, also rapidly becoming the main language within the community that covers my secondary work project. I used to really not care for Python, but to the extent it displaces MATLAB I'm 100% in favor of it. I've also grown to really like it in the test automation role. The only thing I could wish for is that it had a mode that required type hints across the board.
• Modern C++: Used for my other work project. While I do think that C++11 is a huge step up from C++98, I think the later standards have added a lot of cruft and very little value. Given the choice I would definitely take modern C++ over C++98, but I'd really rather be writing something like Rust
• Java: This was a mistake I made years ago when I started a project as a very junior developer. Unfortunately I work in a research context where even as the junior developer I was still the most experienced developer on the team when it came to some things. We needed a REST API for this project and doing it in C++ didn't seem feasible at the time (no idea if it's better now). Some other teams in my org where using Spring so I jumped on that bandwagon. In hindsight, I wish I had written the API in Python since we're slowly moving a lot of our C++ code into Python on that project now.
• Shell: For automation that's just a little too easy to bother with Python
• Rust: Only used on hobby projects for now, but it scratches the same itch as C++ a thousand times better. The language itself is wonderful once you get used to the borrow checker and cargo is an incredibly valuable part of the ecosystem as well.

I use python mainly because thats what i learned programming with. I like the bracketless design, no need to track down unclosed bracks/parenthesis plus its versatile and can do most anything.

Other the python the other one i mainly use is bash. I know JS and C but don't really use them much.

I want to learn more C just because Im interested in diving deeper into how memory is managed but just havent found a suitable project to start using it for.

Ive been learning a lot of web design and want to get back into JS because i wanna start doing frontend, since i mostly know backend.

That being said i'm also interested in php because i think it's cool that i could run a script directly on the backend without an api

Professionally, I mostly use Kotlin, Typescript, and Java.

For fun, I've recently been using BQN, which is quite nice compared to J, which I had been previously using. I also use Elm, Rust, Python and a smattering of others.

Mainly JavaScript, typescript, html, and scss. Occasionally bash and groovy. My favorite to work with is typescript. It’s a superset of JavaScript so naturally JavaScript is a very close second. I am interested in ruby and rust. Just because those are the two languages that I have been enamored with in the past so they are the ones that I have spent more free time than any other learning about them and using them for side projects.

At work it's mostly python, .net core and javascript (regrettably).

Personally, I used to write a lot in C and C++ for embedded, but recently diving more into other areas. Developing quite the love for Golang (GO) and it's simplicity.

Typescript primarily.

Python and C# for the most part. I'm also putting serious effort towards learning Rust, but I likely won't be able to use it at work. It's a good learning experience, and I can tell that my code after learning basic Rust in C# and Python is better than before.

No Swift? I use it exclusively for my app development, but I also teach HS computer science. We use Java, JavaScript, and Python across my different classes.

I'd really like to learn Rust, but haven't had a compelling project to get me started.

JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Angular), Python, PHP, Go, and Java (Spring) are all languages I've had to use for work in some form or another over the last year (not counting bash scripts and the like).

I like Go and Python the most. Used to like Java but it feels like overkill for the projects I support which are all smaller in scope. I would like to learn Rust or brush back up on my C at some point, it's been awhile since I've used it.

• PHP. It remains the only language which you can just FTP onto a server and have working. No need for package managers, docker instances, funky routing, or complicated frameworks.
• Python for anything local. No waiting to compile. Vast library of useful features. Mostly sane syntax. And, again, most machines have it by default.
• Drakon. Perfect if you want to visually sketch out an algorithm. Like Scratch, but for adults.

• Go and Terraform/helm (sorta counts) for work. Rust at home. I usually need to interpret Python at home as well, I have some Home Assistant setups but not actively using it.
• Rust is great, it has a learning curve I'm getting used to with syntax vs. Go but I'm getting the hang of it. I would love to find work where I use Rust daily.
• Right now I'm interested in Rust, so gonna go that route. The Bicep config for Azure looks interesting, so hopefully will try that out sooner or later.

I work with C# & TypeScript, which frankly I don't find too bad

I love to work with Scala though, I find there's a really nice way to do almost everything, and C is nice because it allows so much control over what your program is actually doing - same with OCaml really, however the ability to use Java libraries in Scala makes it that bit better

I'd quite like to try Spatial for hardware in the future

For work: PHP, Ruby, JavaScript (Svelte, Vue), CSS (debatable on if it’s a prog lang) For fun: Swift.

I regularly use Python, C++, and Java. My favorite are Rust, C, and assembly I want to try Haskell because it looks like pythoned rust. Yes I know Haskell is OG complex typing system, but I learned Rust and Python first.

Mostly C++, I develop back-end with algorithms that require all the performance we can get. We 're currently trying Rust for a small project, I hope it will succeed, I definitely love this language. And python when merformance is not the main concern.

• Professionally I mostly work with C (no ++) for bare metal micro-controllers. Basically I'm using it to tie together HW peripherals with some communication library.
• Python is my one-size fit's all tool for anything that has an OS. Testing, scripting, interfacing, it does it all.
• I also used to work a bit with Erlang, which is my personal favourite programming language for its pure elegance and resilience.

JavaScript, Professionally i'm a React developer & you have almost everything in JS. I'm also learning zig lately & it's really cool.

At work I mostly use Matlab and a smattering of C++, at home I'm trying to learn more C++ but prefer to use python. I think my next endeavor will be learning Rust, not sure yet what I'll use it for though.