{"id":1261,"date":"2017-11-17T23:27:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2017-11-17T23:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:27:19","slug":"languages-for-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Languages for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bit early. But I answered a question on Quora about languages to learn for 2018.
\nHere’s what’s interesting me for 2018 :
\nI want to continue getting more experienced and better with Clojure. No language is perfect, but for me Clojure<\/strong> is the best language I\u2019ve ever used. And I want to use it for more projects and in more different situations. I want Clojure to be my default \/ \u201cworkhorse\u201d language for server-side, browser-based UI, Android apps. etc. Clojure is not just a great language but a practical language. And I\u2019m expecting there to be more jobs \/ contracts available with it, going forward.
\nI\u2019m intrigued by Rust<\/strong>. I haven\u2019t even installed it yet. But I want to try it as a low-level C alternative. I have an idea it might be suitable for.
\nI admit that Richard Kenneth Eng<\/a> and Peter Fisk<\/a> are getting to me. I\u2019d quite like to go back and have another look at \/ play with Smalltalk<\/strong>. I loved Smalltalk when I used it a bit in the late 80s \/ early 90s. But I now understand much more about programming than I did then. I want to compare it to what I now know about Lisp. Does Smalltalks\u2019s simple consistent syntax \/ semantics actually offer the same kind of elegance, expressivity and power that I now see in Lisp? Plus, how are the modern Smalltalk environments \/ frameworks for useful application development?
\nI\u2019m a big Python fan. I\u2019ve written a lot of it over the last 15 years or so. However, everything is Python 2.7. I think it\u2019s time to bite the bullet and get to terms with (and translate my outstanding code into) Python 3<\/strong>. Also, just learn more about some of the Python machine-learning \/ AI \/ big-data frameworks.
\nThis year, as every year, I think I\u2019ll finally sit down and do something with Prolog<\/strong> or more likely miniKanren<\/strong> \/ core.logic<\/strong>. The language is less important here. It\u2019s about understanding how to work with the logic \/ relational paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bit early. But I answered a question on Quora about languages to learn for 2018. Here’s what’s interesting me for 2018 : I want to continue getting more experienced and better with Clojure. No language is perfect, but for me Clojure is the best language I\u2019ve ever used. And I want to use it for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,248,284,360,365,397,421],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-clojurescript","tag-lisp","tag-minikanren","tag-prolog","tag-python","tag-rust","tag-smalltalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}