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Poll: It's 2021. What are your favorite programming languages?

8 points by crazypython ↗ HN
What are your favorite programming languages?

Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.

Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.

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auslegung
Elm
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crazypython
Added! Elm is a strongly typed, functional language and framework for building web apps, advertised as having no runtime exceptions.
auslegung
PureScript
crazypython
Added! PureScript is a purely functional substitute for JavaScript.
0x1DEADCA0
God bless Java, Javascript, C, HTML, and CSS.
crazypython
A note: CSS is on here because while it isn't turing-complete, it is a logic language like Prolog, and it has performance considerations, and can do a variety of extremely powerful things: http://csszengarden.com/
0x1DEADCA0
Regardless of its turing completeness, it has a syntax and is wildly used, popular, and useful
Bostonian
Fortran (I use gfortran and the Intel Fortran compiler, now free. Modern Fortran is like a compiled Matlab or Numpy.)
crazypython
Already on the list. Please consider upvoting the poll :)
TheRealKing
actually Numpy and MATLAB try to mimic the high-level behavior and syntax of Fortran.
ttt0
Since when is CSS a programming language?