As a programmer, there are a lot of good things out there. It is the best time to make a choice when you have a lot of choices to make from. There might just be the language of your choice, may be a framework of your choice, may be a toolchain of your choice.
It is a pity that people suffer choices. They always wanted to choose, but in the end they go with the masses and convince themselves that “they want it”. However as I see it, the programming languages have really matured. There is a language of that kind. No matter if you are a OOP person or a Functional person, in the backend or frontend, there is a language to your choice.
Towards the later part of the last year 2020, I was thinking of diving into some new programming languages. I went through a lot of online documents, videos and code samples. The things that interest me were
These three seemed to me as a nice team. After learning the basics and done some quick applications with Go. I am kind of thinking, why I did not found the language earlier! It is small and does the job. With Python it is similar feeling. A lot could be done with the kind of simplicity and roboustness these langugages provide. On the frontend Deno is a nice tool to experiment with.
Done some Kotlin and Php for an Android development project. I did a small project to see, how it works. Seems Php has come a long way. One can write pure Functional programming in Php. This is just amazing as how simple it all has become to achieve the complex of things.
Though there is a lot of noise around Rust, I do not think it can be handled at the same time. But that does not keep me away from that. Whenever I could, will jump into Rust to see how far I could swim in there.
Happy Coding.