What are the best general-purpose programming languages?

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Lobster

Lobster is a statically typed programming language with a Python-esque syntax that combines the advantages of an expressive type system and compile-time memory management with a very lightweight, friendly and terse syntax, by doing most of the heavy lifting for you.
Also see Lobster language info.

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CalmLeiGong

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Automatic memory management

Better than Rust. No sadism.

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CalmLeiGong

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Fully graphical debugger

Inspect stack traces, modify variables...

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CalmLeiGong

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Type inference algorithm

Just works. Goes further than most languages in terms of allowing code without types.

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CalmLeiGong

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Python-esque syntax

There's an audience who loves that.

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CalmLeiGong

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WebAssembly backend

More options for users.

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CalmLeiGong

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Inline structs

Structs are allocated in their parent, and come at zero overhead.

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CalmLeiGong

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Compile time reference counting

Unlike Rust doesn't make the programmer jump through hoops, mainly automatic. Does an analysis similar to the Rust borrow checker to infer lifetimes, but makes life easier on the programmer.

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CalmLeiGong

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Small community

Lead doesn't appear to be so ambitious or has a vision to push making more popular.

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RickZeeland

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No IDE

No IDE available yet.

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MightyHanbi
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Lobster
Recommended 10 months ago
At least this one worth a try. Would not touch Rust or many of them with a 10 foot pole.
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Becoming what Python, Nim, or Mojo were supposed to be. A programming language to make life easier and more fun.
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