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World of Warcraft and many other video games used Lua as their scripting language for in game user created mods, etc.
I always wanted to learn Lua via World of Warcraft, but I stopped playing the game last year.
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Laarning Lua, per se, it is just well worth.
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Different self-selected populations will give different results.
I suspect that CodeProject has more Windows programmers, while SO has more Linux, Android, etc. programmers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As a very MS centric site, it would be shocking if C# wasn't the favorite here.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Easy for eyes to read: Click me 
modified 1-Oct-20 8:34am.
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One of the hit surveys... 
Thanks @Chris-Maunder for making the change to make it interesting analysis.
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We do lots static Groovy mixed with Java. Wishing there was a relatively pain-free way to port it to Kotlin since it offers just about everything we like about Groovy but is designed to be statically typed and Groovy support for static compilation is buggy and getting worse.
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C!
List!
Ctrl!
veni bibi saltavi
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CListCtrl is my bitch. In one app I have one that is virtual and custom draw.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I use it occasionally. For some tasks, it is the perfect tool.
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Another occasional user is me.
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Kotlin got an explicit entry on the list but no Rust or D.
I note no APL, BCPL, or B, either. Shocking.
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Especially Rust. With MS investing heavily in Rust lately and being in the news quite a bit, thought it would be in the list.
btw: D is awesome, just wish it was hitting a little more mainstream with some big backers using it in production, it really lets the rest of the community know it's going to stick around and stabilize. To be fair I haven't checked on it for over a year though. 
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Matt McGuire wrote: btw: D is awesome, just wish it was hitting a little more mainstream with some big backers using it in production, it really lets the rest of the community know it's going to stick around and stabilize.
Yup, from what I have seen I think I'd prefer D to Rust. But Rust is getting all the love because of its backing by Mozilla and now Microsoft. This is very sad for D.
I seem to recall that Facebook were said to be using D a while back but this doesn't seem to have stuck.
D and Rust seem to be competing for the same mindspace and the network effect now seems to overwhelmingly favour Rust. Oh well.
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markrlondon wrote: D and Rust seem to be competing for the same mindspace and the network effect now seems to overwhelmingly favour Rust.
on a rush to make a cleaner, more secure C++, both have excellent merits, but I think the barrow checker /memory safety was the clencher
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Sigh...no one ever talks about that when discussing languages. I used it daily until we switched from IDX (GE Healthcare) to Epic, which is not as thrilled about letting programmers at the raw globals. I love that language! It holds a strong second place (sorry, LISP will always be #1 as the first language I learned outside of college to extend the Word Processing system (Interleaf) we were using before Word because so feature-full). I could make that thing jump through hoops (or spell-check all documents in a folder and index them all, too). Simple things now...not so much so back in the 80s. But, you did say recent, so I hold my Other vote is for MUMPS/M/Cache ObjectScript. Anyone else or am I a unicorn here?
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Many years ago I used a dialect of MUMPS called MIIS created at the MASS Gen Hosp. I loved the language then but now I really prefer compiled languages.
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I was disappointed to see that Other has slipped down to 11th place.
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Did you say MUMPS? And you're still alive? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I did and I am! It is still widely used in healthcare (although some companies allow more programmer access than others!) and as I understand it, the financial sector uses it widely, too. It's a great language. Intersystems now calls it Cache ObjectScript, but when I learned it, it was MUMPS. It's great at handling large amounts of data efficiently.
Really, I'm thrilled that there are other people who even know the language exists. I was starting to feel like (I was gong to say dinosaur, but that would lead credence to your question so I'll say I was feeling like) a unicorn. Yeah, a magical, unique, imaginary unicorn! Thanks for the laugh.
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Member 14541648 wrote: eally, I'm thrilled that there are other people who even know the language exists.
We know it exists only because of it's starring role in at least 4 articles from TDWTF.
A Case of the MUMPS - The Daily WTF
Avoiding MUMPS & Arcadius - The Daily WTF
MUMPS Madness - The Daily WTF
Isn't There a Vaccine For MUMPS? - The Daily WTF
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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