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I'm looking for a programming language that can help me build a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux that's not big but not small either. Additionally, I'd like to be able to build a website with the same language. I've been considering Ruby, Python, Golang and JavaScript. Python seems to be mainly used for scripting and ai, so I'm not sure if it's the best fit. JavaScript has a lot of negative opinions surrounding it, while Ruby sounds interesting. Can anyone recommend a language that meets my requirements?

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[-] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

If Ruby is interesting, check out Crystal, it's like Ruby but static typed and compiled.

[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

JS or really anything you'd make a web app in (I use Rust with something like Dioxus/Yew/Leptos/Tauri), C#/.NET (I use F# because OO-style languages are ugly and a hot mess, especially C# and Java), Java/JVM (I use Scala whenever I can and Kotlin otherwise), C++ with GTK or Qt. There are a lot of options but obviously anything that's not C++ or web is gonna give you a lackluster experience (though I have a thing against web apps and will go through a lot of hoops to have my application use a native interface)

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

You're probably looking for Java. Not JavaScript, Java.

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