2014 Trends - Opinions about new languages

Curious how my LG friends feel about the new languages that are making a big stance moving into 2014.

Specifically interested in the new GO trend.

I know practically nothing about GO, but I might be spending some time seeing what all the hype is about.

As someone who wasn't ever a big fan of PHP I picked up a book on NodeJS and it completely blew my mind how they re-worked the whole infrastructure of a server. I know everyone here is pretty proficient and love PHP, would any of you ditch php for modern apps.

Everything is moving to JSON and it doesn't seem like a true app these days if you don't have an API.

Some other things I've been seeing are alternative SQL databases like Mongo, and Nosql.

Ya'll know I'm a python boy, but the whole python2/3 thing was handled very poorly. >.>

ANYWAYYS, DISCUSSS.

GO is pretty old. IDK if it'd pick up.

I won't be ditching PHP for a long, long time. It's my specialty, and it's wider supported and demanded.
Similarly, with PHP5, PHP is making the leaps and bounds (albeit with a bit of a limp) that other languages are. It's not the piece of shit it was, anyway.

JSON will always be the shit. Hell, even I have a JSON API out there. It's so beautiful.

It's Go or golang, Go isn't an acronym. It's like someone capitalizing Java or Lua.

Who said anything about everyone loving PHP here? I'm not a fan of php nor am I proficient in it.

"Ya'll know I'm a python boy, but the whole python2/3 thing was handled very poorly."

Glad someone admits it. I remember when Python 3 came out all of a sudden, confused the heck out of me whether I should stick with 2.7 or upgrade. Ultimately decided to drop Python.

Anyway, as of right now, I'm reteaching myself programming from scratch. So my focus in terms of programming languages is very narrowed right now.

Also I hear Rust is another trendy, recent language.

GAMEchief wrote:

GO is pretty old. IDK if it'd pick up.

In terms of programming language age, Go language is relatively newer. And being old isn't exactly disinclination to use a language (i.e. C, Perl, etc). Maturity is a good thing.

I personally wouldn't pick up Go just because it looks uninteresting to me, regardless of any trends.

GAMEchief wrote:

JSON will always be the shit. Hell, even I have a JSON API out there. It's so beautiful.

I agree, JSON is universally useful.

The worst was I really like mechanize but it's a python2 library, that's pretty much abandoned.

So aside from writing it to python3 it's just worthless moving forward.

I'm pretty open to anything that's not a Microsoft language xD What are you trying trk on right now TU?

As for php5 it's interesting with the frameworks that really clean it up. I was looking at Laravel the other day and it seemed so clean compared to the older code I've written.

It seems like PHP might be optional with javascript being able to do everything it seems.

There's just something to familar about a LAMP stack for me though.

IDK why I was saying GO instead of golang. I think it was just early in the morning.

I know bits of various languages but I'm redirecting all of my focus towards learning C right now.

I was working in Lua, AutoIt and Delphi mainly before, but I'm going to try and stick with one language for now until the occasion rises where I need to use something else (i.e. higher level languages for basic tasks like simple scripts).