Ask HN: Language After Python and C?

9 pointsposted 5 months ago
by greenfield101

Item id: 43075599

11 Comments

emblaegh

5 months ago

If you really want to learn another language specifically instead of something else, then getting well acquainted with bash and awk wouldn’t be wasted effort.

skydhash

5 months ago

Especially awk, it's a DSL for quick text manipulation. Simpler than Perl and a better API than Python for that specific use case. It's essentially a filter that applies to a specific region identified by a regex.

npalli

5 months ago

Mojo has an interesting mix of things to investigate. Julia is also interesting things that make CUDA/GPU programming easier than Python or C++.

rubenvanwyk

4 months ago

Agree for DS, Julia would be very valuable.

softwaredoug

5 months ago

Do you feel comfortable with array based programming and using tensors? Even though it’s still python, really understanding numpy and torch, are basically learning new programming paradigms. And very relevant to DS/ML

ecesena

4 months ago

JS/TS could be useful if you plan to do any front end work, even just for small demos of your DS/ML work.