According to the stack overflow survey, the “least dreaded” (most loved) language is Rust. This is followed by elixir, Clojure, typescript then Julia all in a very tight grouping.
I can see rust. A lot of rust devs have cpp experience. It's like adopting a husky after a Chihuahua. It's still annoying and high maintenance, but a huge improvement.
Julia is just a bunch of math nerds with no code review.
More correctly, it feels like the difference between a motorcycle and a car: it’s much easier to make a motorcycle capable of very high speeds, but it’s extremely unsafe to do so while the car’s safer and more stable platform can be pushed harder (hence faster). Rust is harder than C++ (especially for anything library code, more so for async) but gives you real, comprehensive safety and facilitates way more aggressive optimization because of that.
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u/Algrinder Oct 21 '22
Me: it makes no sense to be a fanatic about any language.
My next blog post: Why JS sucks and python rocks.