What Language Should I Choose?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

SurveyJS - JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor
Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.
surveyjs.io
featured
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
getstream.io
featured
  1. React

    The library for web and native user interfaces.

    So let's say you want to do web development, you watched some YouTube's and all the cool kids are using React and Next.JS, maybe you decided you would go another route like Golang with HTMX. Whatever it is, you have inadvertently joined a cult, welcome!

  2. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.

    SurveyJS logo
  3. Next.js

    The React Framework

    So let's say you want to do web development, you watched some YouTube's and all the cool kids are using React and Next.JS, maybe you decided you would go another route like Golang with HTMX. Whatever it is, you have inadvertently joined a cult, welcome!

  4. htmx

    </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

    So let's say you want to do web development, you watched some YouTube's and all the cool kids are using React and Next.JS, maybe you decided you would go another route like Golang with HTMX. Whatever it is, you have inadvertently joined a cult, welcome!

  5. go

    The Go programming language

    So let's say you want to do web development, you watched some YouTube's and all the cool kids are using React and Next.JS, maybe you decided you would go another route like Golang with HTMX. Whatever it is, you have inadvertently joined a cult, welcome!

  6. gleam

    ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

    One language that really gave me that feeling was Gleam, it managed to wrap everything I liked about languages such as JS, Rust and even Java into one brilliant type-safe package. Not for a long time before I met Gleam had I wanted to try creating so many different things just to get to the bottom of how this language ticked, as it were.

  7. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

    Stream logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Ask HN: Languages Designed for WASM?

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2025
  • Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2025
  • Top 20 Front-End Development Tools to Use in 2025

    11 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2025
  • A 10x Faster TypeScript

    38 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2025
  • Dockerizing a Next.js Application using a Standalone Build

    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2024

Did you know that JavaScript is
the 3rd most popular programming language
based on number of references?