My personal playground for polyglot programming with different languages and frameworks
Here I test different programming concepts. In my professional career as software engineer I have been working with Java since it came up with version 1.0.2. However, I am fascinated by the concepts of functional programming. The past developments in Java and othe OO languages have shown that more and more functional concepts find there way into the traditional object oriented world. Whatever I provide here is not intentended for production usage. The code might change frequently and will be stay alpha version forever. I am also very aware that there might exist better algorithms than those I have implemented. As said I am mainly playing around here to try how I could solve a particular problem in different languages.
My favourite languages are
- Java
- F# (F sharp)
- Scala
- Haskell
- Swift
- Python
- Rust
- C++
Java is mainly a classic object-oriented programming language inspired by C++. When Java came up its main features why it became successful where garbage collection, platform independent object code (develop locally and run it anywhere) and the ability to run in web browsers (applets). One of the main critism on Java have always been performance concerns. Interestingly, those arguments have changed: Platform independence have become almost unimportant with Linux and Docker as prevalent target platforms. Almost all modern languages provide sophisticated memory management. Finally the Java applet technology is dead, no one uses Java in a web browser, it has been completely replaced with technologies like Typscript/Angular. Performance has become less important with powerful backend systems and highly scalable service oriented architectures. For me the main argument for using Java now is the vast amount of (freely) available, mature and stable framework and software components.
F# is mainly a functional programming language derived from the ML family, in particular OCaml. OCaml introduced object oriented concepts into classic functional ML. F# is ideal if you want to code mainly functional but not purely functional. Since Microsoft has become open for other platforms, i.e. Linux and provide their .Net framework free of charge (.Net core) F# is an interesting alternative.
Scala is a hybrid language derived from Java and functional languages.
Haskell is the classic functional programming language coming from an academic background. It is a purely functional language used for teaching functional programming concept.
Swift is a modern hybrid language inspired by C# and Haskell. It has been developped by Apple replacing Objective-C as main language for iOS and MacOS X. Swift is freely available for all major plattforms.
Python is a classic interpreted language.
Rust is a multi-pardadigm programming language developped by Mozilla Research. Rust has a strong focus on memory and concurrency safety. Rust is well known for its very good runtime performance which is comparable to C++.
C++ is the classic object-oriented language which inspired most of the recent OO languages
The easiest way to play on my playground is to register with gitpot.io and open my repository with the link below in the browser based IDE Gitpod.
https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/qrider71/PolyDev
The IDE accesses a remote docker container which is set up for software development is several programming languages. There are no further installations required on your local system, the remote system provides all required dependencies. All you need is a normal web browser.
From the Gitpod IDE open a terminal. From The PolyDev directory simply execeute the build script: ./build.sh
From the Gitpod IDE open a terminal. From The PolyDev directory simply execeute the build script: ./run.sh
The source code should be independent from your local system. However, the provided shell scripts will only work on Unix like systems and MacOS X. To build and run the software you need to set up the development environments for the programming languages used in this project. The best way is to have a look in the provided Docker file.
| Iterations (10^n) | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java | 43 | 128 | 1101 | 14523 |
| Kotlin | 118 | 633 | 6096 | Out of Memory |
| Kotlin (rec) | 116 | 688 | 6276 | Out of Memory |
| Swift | 7 | 75 | 881 | 12420 |
| C++ | 2 | 27 | 316 | 4381 |
| Rust | 3 | 43 | 547 | 9240 |
| Rust (rec) | 3 | 44 | 575 | 9914 |
| Python | 121 | 1404 | 14933 | 168021 |
| Haskel (rec) | 20 | 270 | 3380 | 132940 |
| F# | 20 | 184 | 1099 | 13240 |
| F# (rec) | 27 | 120 | 1274 | 16037 |
| Scala (rec) | 83 | 343 | 2486 | Out of Memory |