What is your favorite programming language?

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  • Nim

    Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

    Definitely Nim.

  • cargo-raze

    Generate Bazel BUILD from Cargo dependencies!

    Cargo is not that tightly coupled with Rust. You can absolutely use bare rustc, and in fact people do that with other build systems like Bazel.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • dmd

    dmd D Programming Language compiler

  • jstar

    A lightweight embeddable scripting language

    My language, obviously.

  • Metals

    Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀

    Have a look at https://scalameta.org/metals/

  • frece

    Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency)

  • alpm.rs

    Rust bindings for libalpm

    I don't really have any resources on hand. I've been maintaining https://github.com/archlinux/alpm.rs for the past ~3 years so it's just experience hacking on that and writing C.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • pgen

    Generate the right password. (by pkulak)

  • lqsd

    LiQuid Screen Dim - Dim your screen smoothly - Mirror of: https://git.korhonen.cc/FunctionalHacker/lqsd

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