⭐ What programming language do you use most of your life? Why exactly?
Most of my time I worked with almost the entire .Net stack, and in recent years it's Unity, so my language is C#
There were episodes in my life with mobile, many web stuff, java, c++, databases, etc.
@maxim C++ (and C) has been my default language since mid 90s. It feels weird to realize that for a couple of years now 99% of my #gamedev code has been written in GDScript (Godot engine)
Performance. It allows to fully utilise bare metal performance with things like SIMD, nothing is wasted. I paid for the whole CPU, I'm gonna use the whole CPU.
Supports any programming style. Object oriented and memory safe constructs are available, but not mandatory.
@maxim I use Go and JavaScript/TypeScript for work. Occasionally C for lower level stuff and GDScript for an in house simulator.
Though I rather be using C# and C++. That tends to be what I go for in my personal projects with Unity and Unreal. Go is nice though, might try and make something fun with it.
@devmcclu I think sooner or later a programmer comes to a point in his life when he wants to change his profile to something really different from what he was doing before. In my case, after 15 years, I switched to gamedev
@maxim definitely C++ (like 90% of what I write) and some occasional BASIC (A shocking amount of industrial hardware directly runs uncompiled BASIC) but for personal stuff I've also used lots of assembly over the years (mostly x86_(64), z80, and m68k), mostly embedded stuff, hacking around on consoles, etc. I really enjoy doing baremetal stuff, hardware control, etc so given half a choice I'd use some subsets of C++ and ASM only.
@maxim Asking for "most of your life" is a bit problematic, because "most of my life" I used C++, but I wouldn't recommend it anymore. Now I prefer Rust.
@maxim 99% of my code is C#, lately I've been outside touching Java for Minecraft modding. I've got one published mod (not proud of the code, but it works) and 2 more in the works.
One could say C# developer by day, Java developer by night (even though I like C# better)
@maxim Most of my professional life has been C# at this point, though I still tend to think of myself as a Java dev. Using more python and js for personal projects though.
First professional work was in Turbo Pascal and i've used some variant of MS Basic from age 6 to age 41 so sadly that's my most long lived language skill (haven't touched it in a few years though)
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Perl, because I get paid to. But I also use it for personal projects too, as it's a flexible language that allows me to express code how I think rather than how the language's designer thinks.
@tobyink one of my first jobs as a programmer was on TV in the early 2000s. there was a system for journalists written in Perl. I had to learn this language for several tasks. But it was so long ago that I don't remember anything anymore
@maxim I'm a data analyst, but also do senior development in the form of ETL backend integrations for web services, so my primary languages are SQL (in all its flavors, Oracle shudder being the current one), javascript, php, R, with occasional forays into VBA and DAX for detail in Excel.
@maxim probably an irrelevant answer, I used turbo pascal for far longer than any other languages I’ve since picked up. A close second is Java. However in 4 years I’ve written probably at least a hundred thousand lines of code in pascal.
I didn’t know much about C back then and didn’t have the resources to learn how to do stuff in C like making direct IRQs and accessing device memory… so I didn’t pick it up until very much later in life.
Now I’ve picked Rust, after having a brief taste of golang and some others.
@pH_0x05 my first programming book was about turbo pascal, so it was the first language that I tried to learn myself in school, but it wasn't for long... wonder what exactly you are working on in turbo pascal?
@maxim Its a weird reason… I was a BBS operator, and because I spent all my pocket money on the hardware, I couldn’t pay for registered BBS tools… so there’s only 2 ways for me, crack them myself or write a new ones that does the same things (but imo better 😬) .. so a bunch of dos tools from mass archive management tool, to binary patch tool (primarily meant for save games where you can define hex and offsets in a text file to modify) but mainly BBS related ones. Much of the code bloat is coding the UI, because I had to build everything (including keyboard up/down presses from inputs) from scratch and draw the 80x24 interface to the video ram for speed.
Things that nowadays people will look at you really weird when you describe it 🤣
Python: easy for data science and modelling quickly stuff.
JavaScript: the simplest to quickly create stuff that humans interface with (front-end, back-ends).
Rust: because I wanted a compiled language that had modern tooling and a PyPy/NPM-like echosystem making my life simpler.
I'm profficient on the first two, a baby on the later but can tell what's Tokio, Rocket, Serde and a bunch of common-use packages.
@maxim At the university, we are taught C++ and Java, and because of this, I spend more time on them, but I don't want to. In my spare time I write in Python, Elixir and js
@maxim Voted other as I don't have a single one. Depending on what I was working on in the past it shifted between: C++, Python and C#. And as to why... basically I was using the most suitable tool for the job (or at least I thought so at that time :P) or working on legacy code written in X, or having requirements for language set externally...
Mostly still learning it. 😅 I find the type system mind blowing. I do have one toy-project which is available through the new package management system Alire. Actually I should pick that up again...
@maxim It's sad, but I have to answer C++... Because Unreal.
If I had a choice, I'd go with Rust, but sadly we aren't at the point yet where we can use it at work (but there's hope - original plan was to have it up and running end of the year).
So the best I can do right now is to use it in my spare time projects, and stick to the time-honored
Segmentation Fault
@soulsource I hope I live to the time to change the engine and language to C++ and Unreal, but as long as there are unfinished game in Unity and there is a war in the country, this is still an unknown future
@maxim While I've been working with Unreal for years now, I'm not sure if I actually prefer it over Unity (which I last used 5 years ago - time flies...).
Both engines have their up- and down-sides, and the longer one works with each, the more WTF moments happen...
@soulsource I agree. I started with the unreal engine, but as a hobby. After using Unity for 5 years, I will probably not stop using it after the project from this engine, but still, I would like to start delving into unreal
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