What is your favourite programming language? (other than Scala)

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  1. kuroko

    Discontinued Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping, with a lightweight and easy-to-embed bytecode compiler and interpreter.

    Kuroko, it's basically python, but has code block / scope that makes more sense

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. vigil

    Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language

    Vigil, but for moral rather than practical reasons.

  4. coalton

    Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

    My full time job is in Scala, and I still use Common Lisp in some capacity most days. Mostly it's small one-off tasks like pulling a specific field of some JSON, but even that is more ergonomic and enjoyable in an emacs buffer with SLIME than any Scala tool I've seen. I do miss static typing, though, so I'd like to spend more time looking at Coalton.

  5. Coconut

    Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

    F# and also the fun, compile-to-Python, functional language called Coconut.

  6. Lua

    Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

    Lua .

  7. roc

    A fast, friendly, functional language.

    Roc

  8. lean4

    Lean 4 programming language and theorem prover

    Lean 4

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. roast

    🦋 Raku test suite

    rakulang

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.

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the 2nd most popular programming language
based on number of references?