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What are the new language choices for Experienced programmers?


I know the topic I started is too subjective. But I just wanted some expert guidance learning new languages. I've been working with .NET languages (C#, VB.NET) quite a few years (around 4). And it's been years since I stopped experimenting with new laguages after settling down in a job.

Few weeks back I just started working on my personal project, which I am going to spend much time in the coming months. During the analysis I found that I just can't accomodate the luxuries of cost effective languages, programs and IDEs. So I planned to move to the wide spectrum of open source languages and tools.

And when I look at the current choices, I was just speechless. Hundreds of promising open languages and toolsets and I found it's hard to choose. And I can't even think of evaluating each language myself (it's a worst nightmare). Currently I started with Mono (for the sake of C#).

I felt this is going to be a good chance for learning new programming languages and models. So I am open to any language that offers me the following:

  • more functional
  • dynamic language features
  • better language elegance (like lambdas, Haskel like SQL syntaxes or C# LINQ)
  • better community support
  • must be open
  • easy interaction with the web
  • support for parallelism and concurrency (easy threading)
  • better in performance
  • proven web frameworks
  • better IDE support (I got this ease of use syndrome after using years of MS tools)

I love the Haskel and Erlang language programming approach. But I don't have a clue about these languages' web stack and concurrency mechanisms.

EDIT: i would appreciate few reasons along with your choices. It will be really helpful.


Solution

  • I think that all these meet your requirements:

    My bet is that you'll get the groovier IDE experience with Groovy (and it's Groovy Eclipse Plugin).