Programming Language

+10 years of happy and reliable scripting. Controling and running other programas is as easy as exec myapp.exe

Very impressive. Backwards compatible with VB6!

It was easy to learn, safe, compiled, very fast, and the provided libraries do all you need for accessing databases, and web programming. Works nicely with JetBrains IntelliJ IDE.

I have used Fortran for over 20 years, does not seem to work so well with MS Win OS, but Lapack is the best numerical library, Openmpi seems a little tedious, but I am going to dive into CoArray stuff. Sometimes I used C, but I refuse to use C++, get complicated too quickly, like Cuda Fortran.

The killer app is Jupyter Notebook, which combines documentation as Markdown, the REPL in code cells, and the ability to save as HTML, PDF, for publication. Data visualization is second to none through several packages.