What new programming languages did you learn in 2020?
What new programming languages did you learn in 2020?
Forth: By reading Starting Forth by Leo Brodie and by tinkering with FlashForth on an Arduino. I also got about half way through Thinking Forth, also by Leo Brodie but it is much more about project planning and management than Forth.
Janet: I am already familiar with Lisps and Janet borrows a bit from Clojure syntax with its table and array syntax. It wasn't much of a stretch to pick up. I used Janet to build some small command line tools. Nifty Lisp that I plan to use more in the future.
Swift and Cocoa. I did have plans to develop a Mac product this year but by the time I felt I was ready I had pretty much convinced myself I don't want to write software for Apple devices.
This is a bit of a shame because I much prefer Apple devices to Windows (or Linux) but I don't want to have to deal with the way they treat developers.
Go. And I'm glad I did. Feels like a sweetspot between performance of C++ and ease of development of Python.
Some kind of lisp. I'm considering starting with Scheme and then move to Clojure as it's more comercial.
My goal is just to get used to the way lisps work. Hopefully will find some enlightenment in the end.
I'm already familiar with FP but never really groked all the (((parentheses))).
Golang. Didn’t think much of it.
Go. I used to use java for backend development, and I feel it is a right time to learn Go. Pretty Good.
A bit of elisp, thanks to Emacs
Zig is the next thing on my list, haven't learned it yet though.
ELM for quickly create websites