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January 11, 2010 | | Comments (47)
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The sign of any true developer is how up to date they are with the ever changing technologies and programming languages. Many developers have told me that they are planning to learn something new this year. Whether it be Java, Silverlight, Flex, Objective C, etc. So,my question is simply "What new language would you like to learn this year?"

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Abraham said:

Since I'm starting with Unity, C# this year for me, oh and Python's in my list too :)

Tobias said:

I like to checkout Scala

Brian said:

I want to check out Scala as well, and Processing.

Anthony Cintron said:

Objective-C is on my list.

Karol Podkowski said:

Objective-C, Ruby and Go ... if I will still be alive: Python and Scala.

Adrian said:

50:50 Python vs Objective-C

Marvin said:

XUL & some kinda more AIR!

Jon Toland said:

I'm feeling the weaknesses inherent to ECMAScript and Java in ActionScript 3 despite its strengths. Ruby and Python would be great but not static enough for IDE refactoring. C# and F# look hot with XAML but Microsofties I've worked with operate on different wavelengths than Adobe or Sun communities. So I'm learning Scala on Processing using SPDE and looking forward to Java 7.

John A said:

Groovy/Grails + FLEX

mrm said:

Python and Go are at the top of my list.

Anonymous said:

Objective-C and Go.

Jeff Roberts said:

For me, it's not so much a new language this year, but new platforms or frameworks.

I'm currently particularly interested in getting into mobile platform development like Android. I already know Java and have been writing Java for over a decade. So, learning the Android platform seems like a very wise choice for me. I'm also interested in Adobe's Slider framework and the ability to use my existing Flex/AIR skills effectively across many mobile platforms is exciting.

I'm an avid iPhone user, but for whatever reason, learning Objective-C has not been something that gets me particularly excited.

george said:

Flex and Objective C

Ralf Bokelberg said:

C++ for me. The industry still does a lot of C++ work. Even Google. So i want to learn why.

Mr. Wobbet said:

R

Garth Braithwaite said:

Python (with Django) and finish learning Java (Spring/BlazeDS integration)

Davide Zanotti said:

Objective-C and Cocoa :)

Thomas said:

Ruby, this year.

Chris Spurgeon said:

Python. It's an itch I've wanted to scratch for several years.

Eric Marden said:

I taught myself Python last year, and brushed up on my Ruby in order to hack stuff up with the Sinatra framework. This year, I want to learn Objective-C and Anic also looks very interesting.

Chris de Groot said:

Groovy is the new language for me, Grails is the framework for this year. Last year it was Flex and ActionScript. I'm also looking at Google App Engine as a platform.

Iveen Duarte said:

Long List:

Python
Ruby/Rails
Groovy/Grails

That's pretty much it !!

However If I can spare some time I will check out Scala ...

Mike Schienle said:

Objective C is #1 on my list this year.

Jordan Peacock said:

Arabic

Dan M said:

Erlang

Robert said:

I'd like to brush up on functional languages like Haskell, Erlang and Scala.

I'm also interested in the newer dependently-typed languages like Guru and Agda.

Devendra said:

EJB and Spring

ECC said:

Still waiting for a new language with true new concepts ...

The last ones :
- Smalltalk with objects (1972-1980)
- Scheme with true lambda calculus (1975-1980)


mikhail madnani said:

i started learning perl last week from Learning Perl 5th edition. I love the book. I should be done with it in a week. Then onto Intermediate perl and programming perl (camel)

Simon said:

I think that functional languages are looking very promising.
Haskell or Erlang.

Alessandro said:

Scala, definetly... and dig dip into it.

luca mezzalira said:

I'd like to go in deep in Python and Ruby.

Vlad said:

First Clojure; then Scala

Dave Turner said:

Get beyond Hello World Examples for the Android SDK.. I know its still Java but its definitely a new Paradigm as far as programming goes..

Tony said:

I'm with Dave and go all-out with the Android SDK, while sharpening my Flex 4/AS3 since that's going mobile soon.

Kayo Granillo said:

Ruby and Python are on the list.

Robert Young said:

I'd like to see, one, just one person say SQL. But no, ignore the language independent data language, and continue the spread of Babel. Will young-uns ever learn? I guess not.

Valter Kroncite said:

I guess maybe that's because you can learn SQL on a lunchbreak.

Brainfuck and Whitespace - there're some new(ish) concepts. I'm going to dig more into these b/c everything else out there seems to be exactly the same (just different paths).

brian said:

spanish... and objective c

bob said:

"I guess maybe that's because you can learn SQL on a lunchbreak."

Now there's a sign of a bad developer!

cedric said:

Flex and Objective C

saumya said:

ObjectiveC, ObjectiveJ

Chinmay said:

Android, Scala and Flash mobile programming

Chaim said:

English. As in I want to learn to document my code better and write some summary articles to sum things up for my own use when I revist code months/years after it's written.

Equan said:

Learn the old C for hardware programming, dig deep more into ActionScript 3 (Flex/AIR) and Java.
Want to learn mobile programming too, if i still have more time!.

Brian Barker said:

I need to improve on my Esperanto, as well.

I hope that http://www.lernu.net will help :)

Tom Barker said:

@mikhail - definitely include the Advanced Perl book in your list, it goes on to cover sockets and other really interesting topics, it seems to take a much further step than the previous books. It's the one with the panther on the cover

I taught myself Processing last year, it's fun little language and I'd like to expand on that to do more physical computing tinkering when I get some free time this year.

I'd like to become familiar with MIT's scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/ - so I can teach it to my four year old

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