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Poll: What's the programming language you want to learn most?
27 points by sb on March 24, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
To complete the trinity of programming languages questions/polls, I think it would be nice to know which of the following languages fellow HN'ers want to learn most. Particulary interesting should be a comparison with the TIOBE index and see if their trends on a large scale compare well with the results of this poll.
Haskell
62 points
Go
49 points
Clojure
38 points
Erlang
31 points
Python
27 points
Scala
27 points
JavaScript
20 points
Objective C
19 points
C
18 points
Lisp
18 points
Ruby
13 points
Scheme
12 points
C++
11 points
CoffeeScript
10 points
Assembly
9 points
Lua
8 points
F#
7 points
APL/J
6 points
C#
6 points
OCaml
6 points
Perl
5 points
Prolog
4 points
Forth
3 points
SQL
3 points
D
2 points
Eiffel
2 points
Factor
2 points
Groovy
2 points
PHP
2 points
Shell
2 points
Smalltalk
2 points
Brainfuck
1 point
Dylan
1 point
Maple/Mathematica/Matlab
1 point
Oberon
1 point
Oz
1 point
Whitespace
1 point
Other
1 point
Actionscript
0 points
Ada
0 points
BETA
0 points
Cobol
0 points
ColdFusion
0 points
Delphi
0 points
Fortran
0 points
Icon
0 points
Io
0 points
Java
0 points
Modula
0 points
Pascal
0 points
REBOL
0 points
Rexx
0 points
RPG
0 points
SNOBOL
0 points
Tcl
0 points
Visual Basic
0 points



Stop this, please. You're slowly turning HN into Reddit. There has never been, and will never be, intelligent discussion arising from a poll. This is not insight; this is gossip.


I've been looking for things to replace/compile-to JavaScript lately. I've been messing around with Dart, which was my first experience with any form of static typing. The typing, among other features of the language, I enjoyed. I'm not sure if it's developed enough at this point, though, to be used in larger apps. Maybe that's just me.

I just decided to check out CoffeeScript. I think its syntax is fantastic, so far. Maybe a bit too spoken-language like ("yes" is equivalent to "true"?), but I haven't really done anything with it yet.


Dart


Fascinating that so many people want to learn Haskell. Did not expect that.


Radical chic.


Seriously? No. Do this on Reddit.


where's R?




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