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## Thoughts about each language
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### Ruby
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Already was familiar with it, so nothing notable here.
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### Ada
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Actually quite usable.
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The syntax is a bit too verbose for my taste.
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The only little annoyance I ran into was the way integers
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are rendered when converted to strings.
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### Perl
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No. Just No.
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The mandatory variable prefixing is annoying.
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Lists are just a broken feature, and passing them to a
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function will not lead to the expected result.
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I heard that hashes are equally as broken, but I had no
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use for them here.
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This language just makes me appreciate Ruby more.
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### Go
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Module handling is a bit weird but works after some ceremony.
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Didn't really like the way errors are handled.
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The fact that elements are copied when iterating
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made it a bit cumbersome to use.
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### Nim
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Might become my second favorite compiled language after Rust.
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Reminded me a bit of Python with the significant whitespace.
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It can infer types in let bindings, which helps make code less noisy.
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Mutable variables being different from immutables is nice, love to see that.
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Another plus is that identifiers and types are
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in the correct order (`ident: Type` > `Type ident`).
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### Inko
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Was just a language that I found some time ago,
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and wanted to try it with something.
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Documentation is quite lacking, and compiler errors are not
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that helpful.
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The way that control flow is handled is a bit unconventional.
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Feels like a weird mix between Rust and Ruby, but not quite.
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### Swift
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Couldn't figure out how creating modules works.
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Was quite straightforward for the most part once I figured out
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that the `Foundation` package is pretty much essential.
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### C#
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Requires everything to be wrapped in classes like Java, not great.
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Very verbose due to lack of inferred types in many places.
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Linq queries are kinda nice.
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### C
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Well, it's C, a barebones language where you pretty much have to
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implement everything you need by yourself.
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I don't know why but `atoi` threw me for a loop at first,
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because it parsed parts of the input incorrectly for some reason.
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### OCaml
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Quite pleasant experience.
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Everything that I needed was quickly found in documentation.
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The syntax is quite similar to Haskell, so not many
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issues there.
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