If you enjoyed Lisp, you should definitely check out Scheme, Racket, and Clojure. Scheme is my personal favourite language. OCaml is also great.
I use s7 Scheme hosted inside C apps. One of the cool things about Scheme is that are a lot of different ways of using it. (embedded, compiling to C, standalone, etc).
If I need to do some systems level engineering, I’ll reach for Go or Rust. There is generally no reason to use Rust first, because 99% of us will not need 99 percentile performance. I also find Rust to be a tougher language. 98 percentile performance with Go is fine, where there are usually one or at most 3 ways to do something.
If I need web API services, I’ll use typescript for the ecosystem. Most providers offer SDKs and the broader ecosystem is rich. I can use node or bun, and these services can scale nicely at a reasonable $/maintenance/performance ratio.
I’ll reach for Docker because compute is now expensive and dedicated hosting is cheaper than AWS/GCP. I can get a 2020-2022 processor with 128gb RAM and generous bandwidth for $100-200 a month.
I always enjoyed clojure. It had a steeper learning curve than something like python, but you could build really powerful systems and abstractions. Now a lot of that joy is gone and you're probably best off going for the most performant language (ex. Rust, go etc)
I tried rust but the compilation times often make it hard to get into a flow state. I have no idea why it takes so long to compile. I thought low level languages compiled faster.
I still prefer vanilla TypeScript whether writing a browser application, command line application, or both. The language is extremely mainstream but the mere mention of not using common abstractions will trigger holy wars from people who cannot program.
If you enjoyed Lisp, you should definitely check out Scheme, Racket, and Clojure. Scheme is my personal favourite language. OCaml is also great.
I use s7 Scheme hosted inside C apps. One of the cool things about Scheme is that are a lot of different ways of using it. (embedded, compiling to C, standalone, etc).
With LLMs, I choose tooling based on the task.
If I need to do some systems level engineering, I’ll reach for Go or Rust. There is generally no reason to use Rust first, because 99% of us will not need 99 percentile performance. I also find Rust to be a tougher language. 98 percentile performance with Go is fine, where there are usually one or at most 3 ways to do something.
If I need web API services, I’ll use typescript for the ecosystem. Most providers offer SDKs and the broader ecosystem is rich. I can use node or bun, and these services can scale nicely at a reasonable $/maintenance/performance ratio.
I’ll reach for Docker because compute is now expensive and dedicated hosting is cheaper than AWS/GCP. I can get a 2020-2022 processor with 128gb RAM and generous bandwidth for $100-200 a month.
I always enjoyed clojure. It had a steeper learning curve than something like python, but you could build really powerful systems and abstractions. Now a lot of that joy is gone and you're probably best off going for the most performant language (ex. Rust, go etc)
I tried rust but the compilation times often make it hard to get into a flow state. I have no idea why it takes so long to compile. I thought low level languages compiled faster.
I still prefer vanilla TypeScript whether writing a browser application, command line application, or both. The language is extremely mainstream but the mere mention of not using common abstractions will trigger holy wars from people who cannot program.