My current state of language stuff and why should you care
March 8th, 2008
Source: ShutterstockJava : I liked Java but some of my love for all c++/java like languages is gone now. I see the elegance and power in some different paradigms now. If I would have to do a GUI, CAD like thing again I would still use it. I still love Swing, Piccolo and some other things about it. I am not sure if I will make the WATERISK game in it as I said previously.
Factor : I am 90% sure I will use it as my default web-dev platform. I am building core webdev utilities when I have some spare time.
OCaml : I Tried to find a use for it in web-dev but after looking at things decided not to. I will continue to learn it and write another GL/SDL tutorial (but not tomorrow) or just try to make WATERISK in it.
PHP : Will continue using it for webdev where clients request it or where deployment is very important.
Haxe : Will continue to use it for swf (flash games) development. I hope to work on and release open source chat server written with it soon.
Lua : Will probably use it for a 3d project made in Luxinia engine. I would really love to, but a chance is I will cave to the f****** business senses and use Adobe Director just because of in-browser deployment.
Flex, AS3 : I have a very concrete project with Flex that will start ASAP. First time using it.
Erlang : After OCaml I was looking at Erlang for webdev (mochiweb, erlyweb, jaws). After a lot of consideration I decided I will not for now.
Clojure : I want to dip my fingers into Lisp family of languages and this one seems most intriguing to me (rich data structures, concurency, JVM). Maybe it could substitute some cases where I used java before. LWJGL, JOGL, Swing come to play… maybe some web stuff, who knows..
And why should you care?
you really should not, did you just read all this?
(edit: zemantified… cool)