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by giancarlostoro 2604 days ago
Julia is amazing its the language I wish I had time for too. You can literally have it print out the assembly for the code you write. I know C and such can do so. But Julia does it within its little REPL tool. It is incredible.

Unfortunately I love languages like Python and D the most: multiparadigm but not crippled by one single programming approach like OO or Functional. Just do what is best for you and as you learn the language it gets way better.

I would pay good money (if I had good money) to invest a lot more into D. It has so much more potential imho. I would love to see a UI library in raw D that comes out of the box with D in the std lib for example. Same with an out of the box web server like Go does. Lastly maybe some editor like IDLE for D. Coded fully in D with its own UI library like Racket does. I also love Racket it makes me feel like I can do anything and indeed I can.

GUI programming is not emphasized enough in new languages to the point where Electron took off cause when the UI is just HTML and CSS mostly, the sky is the limit. You can reuse skills you know! Qt even has some Electron like stuff going on which is neat.