Rust is top of the list
Rust sits on the throne of adoption, clear king of all languages. Rust's been a real game-changer, performing magic for our services as we switched gears, adopted new abilities, and jazzed up existing services with the Rust curve. This language isn't just speedy and mighty, it also solves many nasty bugs we're likely to hit when our code goes live. Rust's strength is pairable with TypeScript's type checking ability, a feature that's getting a warm welcome in our circle. We're planning to stick around with TypeScript for now. Now let's move onto JavaScript and TypeScript's cousin, React. React is a Javascript framework beast, letting us create components that are usable across varying systems. From web development to applications, I've seen React pull some pretty fancy stunts. Picture simplicity of video streaming tech, and you get an idea. Our friend ReMotion here is the perfect example, it basically lets you whip up and tweak videos right there in React. Moving on, Kafka Streams gets a notable mention. It's a handy little toolset for building applications and microservices, talking directly with Apache Kafka clusters and processing stored data neatly. It sure beats knocking up dedicated producers/consumers for the Kafka message delivery service. Having worked with Kafka Streams, I can vouch for its smooth sailing compared to the usual Kafka ordeal. Kafka Streams keeps things skinny with less code, exactly how I like it. Next on the radar is Kotlin, a sweet cross-platform language and a cousin to our old Java. Kotlin's beauty lies in it being shorter and smarter than its Java sibling. It packs in all those lovely code patterns we can't resist, be it asynchronous, object-oriented, or functional, with a refreshing spin. Moving on, say hello to NestJS. It comes in as a life-saver for building web apps with bulky frameworks like React. The heavy load of dependencies that come with these giants can bog down browsers, but NestJS sweeps in and streamlines the process, delivering only the required components and functionality, just when needed. If you ask me, that's pretty darn smart. NestJS's thought process is focused on simplifying the application architecture for the web, offering a ready-to-go structure that makes applications tediously testable, massively scalable, loosely bound, and effortlessly maintainable. And the icing on their cake, inspiration from Angular. Rounding up the languages and frameworks talk, we stumble upon Prisma, a treasure-fashioned for application architecture, just like NestJS. Only, Prisma is a server-side exclusive that helps developers get their hands onto data from the database in a smooth, efficient and secure manner, talk about hitting the bullseye. Finally, heading to the tail-end, we see GraphQL, Echarge, FPTS. What's FPTS? That would be your functional programming in TypeScript. So if you're a TypeScript enthusiast wanting some functional layering, FPTS should be your pick. Finally, we have Python 2, Java, Angular, TypeORM, and C languishing at the bottom. These are relics from the past that we intend to let stay there while focusing on the newer, shinier toys we've talked about.
