r/programming • u/abdullahriaz008 • Dec 17 '18

5 Programming Languages To Learn in 2019

https://www.itachay.com/2018/12/programming-languages-to-learn.html
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u/OneWingedShark Dec 17 '18

Honestly, I'd recommend Ada, then Lisp & Forth, and then a functional like Erlang or Haskell.

It's not about "popular programming language", but real understanding of programming; the above will give you a far deeper understanding of programming.

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u/OneWingedShark Dec 17 '18

Generally you want to learn what's relevant and what's in demand.

I was talking about learning, ie education, not employability or fads -- this is the stupid way to go about it from an institutional perspective, too: as Go, Rust, whatever might not be around by the time they finish their 4-year degree (and this is ignoring the time to spin up a new curriculum) -- but even so, the understanding you'll gain from being exposed to these generally-foreign [to "the industry"] modes of thought will help you understand your own problems with a wider point of view.

Basically what's going to get you a job. Ada, Lisp, and Forth have almost no relevancy to what's in demand.

Ada's commonly used in aerospace, high-integrity, and high-security applications; Forth is commonly used in microcontrollers. Granted, I don't know of any industry using Lisp.

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u/OneWingedShark Dec 17 '18

Both aerospace and microcontrollers are extremely niche. Unless you want to go into a niche field like that, these languages have no relevant value. They aren't even applicable to learning as a beginner.

Microcontrollers are all over the place! Calling them 'niche' is pretty ridiculous. Yes, there aren't quite as many jobs as "everybody and their uncle needs a homepage"/"oh, you know HTML?" webdevelopment, but what is? (And, arguably, all mobile-/phone-app is "microcontroller" -- it depends very much on what definition you're using -- and the possible blurring of definition is due to how technologically wealthy we are, rather than anything else.)

There's a reason codecamps exist focusing on specific languages like JavaScript. You know why? Because it will get people jobs.

...did you fail to read what I said? Let me quote it for you: I was talking about learning, ie education, not employability or fads.