[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Doug Hall]

As a developer, I've noticed a shift, in the past few years, toward
functional programming languages. This shift is primarily to take advantage
of multiple core processors. In these languages, data is immutable, so that
shared memory is not a limiting factor with processes. If you come from a
ruby background, I would highly recommend you take a look at Elixir, which
was, and is being developed by José Valim, a former member of the Rails
core team. José's exposure to ruby shows up in Elixir, so it won't be
entirely foreign to you. Also, Dave Thomas has jumped on the Elixir
bandwagon and has a pretty decent book on it, too. I'm learning it myself,
and so far, I like it very much. Some experience in a functional language
like this might help to distinguish your résumé.

Doug Hall

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> For jobs,  Java and C++ appear popular,  but Java-like Scala is also
> rising. Python seems still something of a niche language.
>
> On Feb 2, 2017 12:40 PM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've coded in a few languages and have a couple I really enjoy. However,
>> they don't tend to fall in the "lots of jobs" or "direct tie to Linux"
>> category. The idea I've had so far is to pick a language I really enjoy and
>> learn things like OOP, TDD, refactoring, etc.
>>
>> Not sure this is a good path though. I'm not young and am still trying to
>> move from Linux admin to coder type of guy.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Leam
>>
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