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Posted on May 1, 2023 with Erin A Olinick

Exploring New Languages & Tools: What's on Your List?

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As a developer, there are always new programming languages and tools to explore. What are some languages or tools that you're curious about but haven't had the chance to use yet?

Let's share our programming wish lists and maybe inspire each other to try something new!

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Charlie J Smotherman

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Seattle WA
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Worlds Greatest GrandPa at Looking for work
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• May 3 '23

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Been exploring how to write and deploy a website entirely in Rust

Yew for the frontend. If you have used svelte or nextjs, you will feel right at home using yew components.

Tauri for the backend.

Diesel with Postgresql, mysql, or sqlite for data persistence.

Wasm, this is the way!

Happy Codding Everyone

taijidude

Java Developer. Love to read and learn. Hobbies: - tabletop rpgs - boardgames - videogames - cooking - kettlebell

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Hannover, Germany
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Software Engineer
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Jul 22, 2020

• May 2 '23

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Go, Rust, Open Ai API with Python

Riccardo Bernardini

I graduated in 1990 in Electrical Engineering and since then I have been in university, doing research in the field of DSP. To me programming is more a tool than a job.

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Udine, Italy
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PhD (in DSP)
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• May 7 '23

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SPARK, the subset of Ada suitable for formal proving. I played with it for a while, but I would like to get more acquainted with it.

Alessandro Pischedda

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Pisa
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• May 4 '23

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Golang,
Maybe Dart and Zig

NLxDoDge

Human::generate().skill("logic") : Created generic human #3.490.230.498 I am primarily a lurker, I don't post much content.

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Utrecht
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Bachelor Software and Information Engineering at University of Utrecht of Applied Sciences
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Java DevOps Engineer at ING though Sogeti
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• May 2 '23

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Kotlin, but I am getting more interested in Rust. Even more when I heard that sudo was going to be replaced and that Windows is even re-writing code with Rust now.