Thread: Is there a programming language that brings you joy?

Is there a programming language that brings you joy?

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What was your first programming language, what languages do you know now, and what tips do you have for those trying to learn any of those?

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How Lisp became god's own programming language (2018)

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Koka - A Functional Language with Effect Types and Handlers

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A reasonable configuration language

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Learning new programming languages with limited time: Rust, golang, or otherwise?

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Zig: The small language (2022)

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Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design

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Moving my game project from C to Odin language

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Understanding the Odin Programming Language

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Anguish: The invisible programming language (and invisible data theft)

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A programming language made for me

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Berry is a ultra-lightweight embedded scripting language

~ 12 pts 4 comments by unknown Jul 9, 2025 ~compprogramming_languagesopen_source Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Meta: A Human-Friendly Programming Language

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Par is a concurrent language with linear types

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Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months of the Elixir programming language

~ 10 pts 2 comments by unknown Jan 19, 2026 ~compprogramming_languages Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis

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Ladybird un-chooses Swift as its successor language to C++

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Ladybird chooses Rust as its successor language to C++, with help from AI

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The Lobster programming language

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Joy Programming Language (latrobe.edu.au)

L 13 pts 4 comments by SeanTAllen Nov 2, 2014 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

The language Joy is a purely functional programming language that was created by Manfred von Thun. Whereas all other functional programming languages are based on the application of functions to arguments, Joy is based on the composition of functions. All such functions take a stack as argument and ...

Why I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit (old.reddit.com)

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Zig 0.11.0 Release Notes

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Representing heterogeneous data

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Announcing TypeScript 5.2 RC

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Announcing TypeScript 5.2

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Perfectly reproducible, verified Go toolchains

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Introducing RustRover: a standalone Rust IDE by Jetbrains

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Rewriting a Chumsky Parser By Hand in Rust

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Announcing TypeScript 5.3 Beta

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