languages.md

Languages

JavaScript

• The most popular programming language in the world
• MEAN/MERN stack development
  • MongoDB
  • Express.js
  • Angular/React
  • Node.js

Clojure

• Dialect of Lisp
• General-purpose
• Functional
• Runs on JVM and CLR (Common Language Runtime)
• ClojureScript compiles to JS

Apache Groovy

• OO/Imperative
• Java
• Examples
  • Jenkins
  • LinkedIn (some subsystems)
  • Gradle
  • Wired.com

Perl

• General-purpose
• OO/Imperative/Functional
• Examples
  • cPanel
  • Craigslist
  • IMDb
  • Ticketmaster
• Popular among system administrators

Python

PHP

HTML

• Not a programming language
• Gives a website structure

CSS

• Not a programming language
• Gives a website styling

Rust

• Sponsored by Mozilla
• Functional/imperative-procedural
• Syntax similar to C++
• Most loved language on Stack Overflow (2016-18)
• Projects
  • Firefox
  • Tor

F#

• Functional/OO/Imperative
• ML
• Open-source and developed by Microsoft
• "Optimized alternative to C#"
• Examples
  • Quantitative finance
  • Machine learning
  • Social gaming on Facebook

.NET

• Microsoft

COBOL

• Old, used in business

ReasonML

• JS in OCaml syntax