The best programming language ever?

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

It seems pretty great, haha.

General alternative/less used programming language thread!

Brainfuck is pretty funny, you can read about it here: Brainfuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There's also LOLCODE: LOLCODE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And last but not least, there's Befunge: Befunge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've heard of things like D and other things like that, but was too lazy to research them. If anyone else knows any other less-used or unique programming languages, feel free to post them (And don't just say FORTRAN and Cobal and Pascal, haha. I mean less used like less number of programmers, past and present. Not just old)

There is no "best programming language ever." Also esoteric programming languages are far from that.

Get this parody thread out of here.

Lua. AutoIt/AutoHotKey. Delphi. Haskell.

They're all great programming languages that aren't that mainstream/popular/frequently used. At least ones that I've used that are pretty cool.

Edit: CoffeeScript and Go are also some languages that have been gaining traction as of lately.

So joke languages aren't what I was expecting.

My vote is JavaScript, just for its extensibility. Cross-platform, for every platform, even ones that don't exist yet.

I know a gaming programming language. BYOND - Make & Play Online Multiplayer Games

ya bish wrote:

I know a gaming programming language. BYOND - Make & Play Online Multiplayer Games

Not really a programming language. More like a SDK/toolkit.

Looks interesting though.

GAMEchief wrote:

So joke languages aren't what I was expecting.

My vote is JavaScript, just for its extensibility. Cross-platform, for every platform, even ones that don't exist yet.

Haha that's actually a really good point you bring up.

If we're talking the most useful and powerful language spanning across platforms, I would say JavaScript in first because it has support for systems that don't exist yet, and HTML in second, because it's mostly design-based, but still has that non-existent-system type feature.

If we're talking ease of use, either Java or Python. Strength, C or C++. Power to do anything, I would say Assembly, since you can do virtually anything with it that has to do with moving bits and things haha.

HTML isn't a programming language, and it's also kind of a prerequisite to JavaScript. At the same time, if you're dealing with extensibility, you may want to go with XHTML over HTML. Or maybe HTML5 for newer features (or the features JavaScript supports with it, to be specific), but that's pushing it since it's far from cross-browser.