What is, in your opinion, the most fun coding language?
What exactly makes it fun?
(Not including markup languages, i.e. HTML)
I personally like C++, as it gives me a lot of control over what I want to do. Also it's compiled so...
I'd love to hear (read) your opinions!
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Perl can be a very fun language. It gives you the ability to do so much that you can write some really cool code that other languages would never allow. That being said, the fact that Perl does that is also why it is the most hated language. I enjoyed it for a little while but I got really sick of it as I wrote more complex scripts.
Just to highlight my point, in Perl's own documentation it says
You can make some really cool knots with that rope but you could end up with that knot around your own neck.
And sometimes you don't know that the rope is around your neck as this person stated
Perl might be good for short scripts, but it does get worse as you go on to make larger projects. I haven't used it in a while (I only wanted to try it out), but it does seem to give you a lot of rope.
I'll make a pitch here for MiniScript. It's small enough to be described in a single page, but powerful enough to make real apps and games like these.
I've never heard of it, but it seems really cool! I found the one-page docs, it is really small :)
Thanks! It is cool. :) In case anybody wants a fun excuse to jump in, there's a MiniScript community Advent of Code contest starting on Friday (with prizes!).
Sounds quite fun. Will definitely give it a try!
The one you know and like
That's true. Which one is that for you?
Very unoriginal answer, but I've had the most fun making stuff with JS. It's versatile and gives creative freedom on how to write it. it's not the most "fun" language hehe but you can have a lot of fun with it.
Ruby 🙂
Rust, because it makes it easy to debug. Everyone knows less debugging is more time playing video games.
Or more time to CODE SOMETHING ELSE xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
It seems that Rust is the most fun programming language, thanks to these awesome 'conversations' with the compiler. :D :D :D
Doesn't it tell you exactly what the error is, where it is, how to fix it, and give you more info if you ask? That's what I've heard :)
Yes, yes! That's exactly what I mean here! All these conversations are really short and straightforward.
HTML was my first and obviously a very important one. I'm not a pro at it but I do understand it. Currently learning Python since I've been hearing so much about it. Now yall got me thinking about see what RUST is about.
Peace!
php is also easy language...!
Does LOLCAT count? 🤪
Edit: or INTERCAL?
I couldn't find LOLCAT, but I found LOLCODE. It's hilarious 🤣
Damn I been at this too long. You're right it was LOLCODE. Never wrote much but hello world in it. INTERCAL is funny too in case you didn't see that part.
Hahaha I almost forgot about esolang :D
I had to have some help with this one from gpt because I really stink at this language ... but .... I present the factorial algorithm in runable Shakesphere :
The Tragedy of Factorius, the Brave.
Julius, a positive integer.
Brutus, a temporary variable.
Caesar, the result.
[Enter Julius and Brutus]
Julius:
You are as brave as the sum of yourself and a mighty hero! % Increment Julius
Brutus:
You are as amazing as the sum of yourself and a big fat zero! % Set Brutus to 1
[Enter Caesar]
Caesar:
Am I better than Julius?
Brutus:
If not, let us proceed to Scene III.
You are as noble as the product of Julius and yourself.
[Exit Brutus]
Julius:
You are as lovely as the sum of yourself and a big fat zero.
[Exeunt]
Clojure. I think lisp in general is really fun.
Lisp is kinda cool, I've been thinking about trying it. For now though, I'm sticking to normal stuff.
Lisp is normal to me now
I bow to you, sir
Folks talk about their favorite languages here but at the same time most of them are not fun at all, just pleasant and habitual to work with. IMHO the most funny languages to play with are scripting languages because they give a lot of freedom and have a lot of interesting opinionated approaches and patterns. I’m talking about JS, Python, and (my favorite) Lua, as the most popular among the ton of scripting languages. Lua specifically is the real fun with its consistent approach to lists and dictionaries, and no zero index, and all that funky stuff. It’s like a chill-out experience after hard working day 😄