Ask HN: Recommended programming language expect PHP

[kusaimara]

Good evening. I study programming PHP and want to study other one.

What programming language do you suggest?

[gus_massa]

The question is what do you want to do? Do you want to continue programing web apps in the server?

It's not my area, so you may look a better opinion, but i suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript

[pwg]

If you want to study one that is in a somewhat different vein, TCL will give you a broader viewpoint. Its syntax tends somewhat towards the LISP end of the spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

[bhu1st]

Did you dislike PHP? If no build a couple of projects in PHP first before learning another language.

[kusaimara]

No, I like PHP. I make some program.

[pestatije]

since u know (or will know) server-side...go for the rest: html, css, javascript

[billy99k]

Pascal or Visual basic

[gus_massa]

I still think that Classic Visual Basic 6 is the best tool to make a small app with a user friendly GUI that has a few buttons and you can distribute to end users and they can just click, be happy and think you are some kind of genius. Anyway, it's kind of dead :( , so I don't recomend to start with it now.

I'm still amazed how much I could do with a dozen of lines of PHP and Javascript, and make a simple web app, that I can deploy anywhere and my colegues be happy because I solver our problem.

(I never used Pascal (well, perhaps a hundred of LOC in total), but the old Borland Pascal compiler was extremly fast and good when it was released.)

[kusaimara]

It's a language I don't hear much these days.

What purpose is it used?

[tithos]

Literally any other lang. lol