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Starting a new side project, no platform-specific functionality needed. Tried out a few relatively "new" languages (more like new to me) and experienced severe frustration from bugs and spotty documentation, lack of proper IDE/debugger support.

So, I figured, better the devil you know. And of course: choice of compilers, choice of FOSS libraries, my own libraries and workarounds to various well-known annoyances and, well, debuggers!




Have you tried GO with GoLand IDE?


I haven't, it was on my list but I eventually ran out of time an patience. Definitely planning to try it out at some point as I keep on reading great things about it.


I just started playing around with Goland this week.

What are your favorite features?


Which languages did you try out?


Swift/XCode (guess I had unrealistically high expectations, the whole experience was just downright infuriating), Seed 7 (somewhat exotic, I liked it but had some build problems on Mac), Groovy, FreePascal/Lazarus, D+VScode (almost), Python+VSCode. Embarrassing perhaps, but I ended up doing my prototype in PHP, debugging on my Mac was not fun but its awesome documentation kept on saving the day.


There's nothing embarrassing about modern PHP.

Laravel DB migrations are very convenient, and very DB agnostic.




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