I would mention F#. According to the TIOBE Index, it's now the 16th most popular language (up from 26th a year ago). It's newer than Ruby and Python, and doesn't break compatibility like Python (which has schismed their community). It contains more bells and whistles than Apples new language in Swift, and and it has the advantage of being able to interoperate with your 'legacy' C# code. You don't have to throw anything away.
On the down side, unless you're familar with functional languages, it can take a little while to get used to. Some of the tooling support isn't fantastic in Visual Studio (there's no resharper). Once you are used to it, it's a productive language with less 'boiler-plate' code than C# (which I think is still a very nice language). On 19 September 2014 14:52, mike smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://s3.crashworks.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/if-programming-languages-were-vehicles/ > > I've got the APV > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Bec Carter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> JS is still ugly to me no matter what the hipsters says >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Joseph Cooney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Looking at data like http://langpop.corger.nl it seems like c# is alive >>> and well. Java, PHP and JS are really the only languages of similar >>> popularity. I imagine JS will probably pull ahead as more stuff goes to >>> node, or server-side presentation logic moves to the client. >>> >>> Joseph >>> On Sep 19, 2014 10:15 AM, "William Luu" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Tech moves quickly. >>>> >>>> But C# is far from "legacy", it is a mature, yet still evolving >>>> language. >>>> >>>> C# 6 is coming - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn683793.aspx >>>> and >>>> http://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CSharp%20Language%20Design%20Notes&referringTitle=Documentation >>>> And some short videos on it - >>>> https://www.wintellectnow.com/course/detail/what-s-new-in-c-6-visual-basic-dotnet-14-and-visual-studio-14 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 19 September 2014 10:01, Bec Carter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just the other day a friend of mine mentioned how at a meeting with >>>>> the big guns at her office they were referring to C# as "legacy". Am I now >>>>> the new VB6 equivalent? Noooooooooooooooooooo. Help. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Awfully quiet on here. Have people left? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Indeed I was thinking that in recent weeks. Either .NET is obsolete >>>>>> and no one wants to talk about it, or after a decade in the group >>>>>> everyone >>>>>> is now a ninja guru and have no questions. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyway anybody have a surface pro 3? Thoughts so far? Ok for dev >>>>>>> work? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> No surface, however I was going to take my wife's brand new iPad to a >>>>>> meeting today to take notes, but I couldn't even figure out to close a >>>>>> browser window on it, so I'll come back to the idea later. >>>>>> >>>>>> *Greg* >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >
