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What are the 'coolest' languages and tech right now?

AstonJ

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What are the 'coolest' languages and tech right now?

Inspired by this post from @Carter, which languages, frameworks or other tech or tools do you think is killing it right now? :upside_down_face:

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AstonJ

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One of the things I love about Erlang/OTP being so cool is that they’re decades old - isn’t it awesome when something (and sometimes, someone) are so ahead of their time? :sunglasses:

Rust is definitely up there!

I am going to add WASM, TypeScript and Svelte to the list, as well as Elixir for being the gateway to Erlang/OTP for so many of us :nerd_face:

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Idris, Agda, OTP, Phoenix Liveview.

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