Which language or framework do you want to learn next?

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Curious to know which languages and frameworks you’re all thinking about learning next :upside_down_face:

Perhaps if there’s enough people wanting to learn a specific language or tech we can create study groups for you in a dedicated section too…

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I’m soooooooo dying to do a mobile app! So for me I have whittled my next language down to either Dart/Flutter or Swift.

I am 99.9999999% sure it will be Swift :laughing:

It’s just that tiny bit of doubt of being able to make an Android as well as Swift app with little additional effort that is niggling!

The reason I am drawn to Swift is:

  • It’s from Apple :see_no_evil:
  • It’s fairly new, and IIRC, was influenced a little bit by Ruby (amongst other languages)
  • If you want your app to stand a chance of being featured (who doesn’t?) then I would guess one made in Swift would stand out more to the editors than one made in Flutter or something else (tho I guess whichever app has the potential to make them more money would take precedence even above that)
  • You can use Swift on the backend, and is it only a matter of time before Apple re-enters the server space? With specialised hardware?

If anyone else wants to learn Swift… shall we start a study group? I’m definitely up for it!!!

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Also, you can only use SwiftUI if you’re creating the app using Swift.

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Good point @DevotionGeo!

Wbu? Are you learning Swift or another language?

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Swift is on my list, but I won’t get time for it until next year. Currently, I’m learning Rust and revisiting Erlang, and would like to use Actix and Yaws in some small/toy projects. But I’m not getting enough time even for that.

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I started a course on Swift, but didn’t finish (lack of free time :frowning:)

As @DevotionGeo I could see myself getting (back) into Erlang and Rust as well.

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Rust and Haskell. I wanted to learn them since a while but never found enough free time to really start…

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I’d like to build a project using the Nerves framework on a RPi in Elixir

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I imagine rust lang because I saw many people doing blog posts, talks, content talking about the best scenario to combine elixir and rust…

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This is my updated list :see_no_evil:

Longer term

  • Swift (via some of the books here and vids here)
  • Rust (this book looks interesting!) or Crystal (with this book - though probably Rust, because of Rustler)
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3 posts were split to a new topic: Erlang Master Classes - by Joe Armstrong, Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson

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I also have learning Erlang on my list.

I could also use more practice with GenServers and OTP. I can program in Elixir, and put things together in Phoenix, but I still can’t build anything on top of a bare GenServer without my nose stuck in a reference work the entire time.

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Hi, my objetive this year is to learn elixir, so that I can apply it, or at least try it, in the company where I work.

I am a Python programmer, and I find interesting all the tools that elixir provides that avoid using additional services for most of the developments (redis, celery, etc.), in addition to the support to concurrence.

Let’s see how the year goes.

Best regards!

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Apache Groovy because it is used in Gradle build scripts and Jenkins pipelines

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C++ again.

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I used to write tons of bash years ago, but for past few years it was always either python, or JS, or C# or powershell, or go, or elixir.

about 2 weeks ago I had to write quite complex bash script, and I realized, I have forgotten it! So need to learn it again :smiley:

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Hoping to learn F# and functional programming this year :slight_smile:

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Swift is my next language to learn.

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Phoenix LiveView :slight_smile:

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