Esperanto.
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Sorry to say, but once I realised how euro-centric, and to my ear/eye, latin-centric esparanto is I completely lost interest.
I don't know if anyone has tried, but something which similarly draws influences from the languages that the vast majority of the world speak would be wonderful.
You made me think of that xkcd about standards.
Anyway, the eurocentrism argument, while perhaps true due to the Latin root, seems to be a little bit of a savior complex don’t you think? China itself pushed for Esperanto to be used as a business language internally late last century as I recall.
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Lojban
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If we're saying 7% is the bar for mainstream, then Rust is my vote.
C# is not even mainstream by that standard.
I'd also like to see Julia used more.
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Zig hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'm just going to drop that here.
I personally have enjoyed the meta-programming, the ease of integrating with C libraries, and like that it's pretty straight-forward to compile.
Zig is what I thought Rust would be like when I first heard of Rust. I'd love to try Zig for some hobby things but can't get it running on OpenBSD (yet!).
Haskell. I think that more people being familliar with Haskell concepts would be good for programing culture and it would increase the odds of me being able to write Haskell professionally, which is something I enjoy a lot when writing hobby code at least. Having more access to tooling and a bigger eco system would be nice as well.
I'm not a 100% sure about my answer though. For one, I might grow to resent Haskell if I had to use it at work, and there's also a risk that it would be harder to do cool innovative stuff with the language when more big companies depend on it.
Rust. I've been using it for a while, and I've been using more software written in it lately. Stuff you make with it is just better in most ways. In other languages, you have to go above and beyond to make your code fully correct, safe, user friendly, and every trait I value in software. Rust makes those things easy, and so people are more willing to do them, and so things that get made in it are better. Oftentimes it's just a matter of pulling in a crate and adding a few lines of code.
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Rust! Memory leak free code would make our world a better place!
Rust doesn't guarantee the lack of memory leaks anymore then java/C++ does, so sadly not sure if it would help here. :)
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At this point, I think it's almost mainstream, and it's still growing fast (and it's getting better, rust-analyzer is really awesome these days, I was there at the beginning, no comparison to today...))
I may be biased, but I think it'll be the next big main language probably leaving other very popular ones behind it in the coming decade (Entry barrier and ease of use got much better over the last couple years, and the future sounds exciting with stuff like this)
I’m obsessed with an extremely little known language called Grain. It’s not quite ready for production but it has an insanely intuitive functional syntax that I want to use noww.
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Futhark: a functional language that can be compiled to run in parallel on cpu or gpu. (No need to write cuda directly) https://futhark-lang.org
Pony! Its actor based, with a really interesting type system
It's a pity there is not 1 code example on the Front Page. I spent a few minutes trying to find a page with some code and all I found was Why, Why Not, what is different etc and not any code examples so I am out. Look at Zig within seconds I can see if I like the syntax, does it make sense to me. I would love to know what Pony lang looks like. I might like it but it seems like
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I would like to see Ada grow. Its clean syntax, rich expressive capabilities, and early error detection by the compiler due to strict typing create a very pleasant experience during development. This year, the language got a new standard. Recently, a package manager and a community index were created. There's an extension/LSP for vscode, etc. Along with great educational materials on learn.adacore.com, it's easy to pick up and start using this language.
PS I created a community on p.d two days ago: https://programming.dev/c/ada
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !ada@programming.dev
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Assembly, which flavor IDK but some RISC architecture.
If everyone spoke assembly the world would be a very different experience. I'm not saying that it would be better or worse, but it'd definitely be different.
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Go. I love writing go, its so simple and predictable and the accessability of multithreading and being allowed to create as many "threads" as I want make me feel smart as fuck.
Would you say Go is popular enough to be called mainstream?
Go is definitely mainstream imo, and it's backed by google.
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import qualified Data.Text as T (Text)
correctAnswer :: T.Text
correctAnswer = "Haskell"Rust
Swift.
It's a wonderful language, it's general purpose, it's cross platform, and it's open source (Apache license). I wish it was a mainstream language outside the of the Apple universe.
What I love the most is it's so flexible. It's a full featured OOP language, a full featured Procedural language, a full featured Functional language, a full featured declarative language, and you can relatively easily make it work with anything else you can think of.
It also has the best concurrency system I've ever seen - and with high performance computing relying so much on parallel computing these days that's a must and often what I miss the most in other languages.
A lot of other languages do some things just as well as Swift, but Swift does everything really well.
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I would LOVE for Nim to get more web stuff
Klingon
most of the apps written in Klingon would have the "today is a good day to die" directive, which means no exception handling at all and bringing the whole OS down in glory if needed
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Raku
Super niche, but I wish wren caught on. It's a language very similar to lua, but indexes start at 0. Also it has some cool features too, but mostly the index thing.
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Rosie Pattern Language, which is an alternative to regular expressions.
Edit: Here is a presentation by the creator
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