What are they top 3 languages that you have used that can be used as Go alternatives ranked by fun in your opinion (I am guessing Clojure and Rust are two of them)?
You’re right! I think overall I have most fun with Clojure.
I also really like Julia; it has a channel mechanism and it has a very nice macro syntax. It also is obscenely fast at number crunching tasks and I find the language pretty pleasant to use with a nice syntax. I use Julia whenever I need to do anything involving CPU bound number crunching stuff (which admittedly isn’t too often).
All that said, I have been mostly favoring Rust because the memory footprint is so much smaller and I still have a fair amount of fun with it :).
Also, depending on the task, I also get a fair bit of mileage out of ZeroMQ, which can bolt on channel-like semantics in a pinch. It’s not as nice as having it build directly into the language but it does support more flexible patterns. Whenever I have to use Java I almost always end up importing JeroMQ the moment that that built in BlockingQueues stop being sufficient.
I also really like Julia; it has a channel mechanism and it has a very nice macro syntax. It also is obscenely fast at number crunching tasks and I find the language pretty pleasant to use with a nice syntax. I use Julia whenever I need to do anything involving CPU bound number crunching stuff (which admittedly isn’t too often).
All that said, I have been mostly favoring Rust because the memory footprint is so much smaller and I still have a fair amount of fun with it :).
Also, depending on the task, I also get a fair bit of mileage out of ZeroMQ, which can bolt on channel-like semantics in a pinch. It’s not as nice as having it build directly into the language but it does support more flexible patterns. Whenever I have to use Java I almost always end up importing JeroMQ the moment that that built in BlockingQueues stop being sufficient.