Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?
Pascal - still use it today.<p>I started with Turbo Pascal 3.0, went through several versions of Borland Pascal (DOS and Windows), several versions of Delphi, and am now using FreePascal. I do most of my work on Linux nowadays. Pascal still gets everything done and after 20+ years I am <i>really</i> fluent in it.<p>Did a little bit of Javascript with Node.js, also looked at Golang. While I did like some aspects of them, there was always the downside of having to learn a whole new ecosystem. Didn&#x27;t like the dynamic typing of Javascript. Golang looked better for what I do. But in the end I just wrote a small Pascal library to emulate Golang&#x27;s channels which I really liked, and that was the end of Golang for me.<p>My main project in Pascal is a search-engine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deusu.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deusu.org</a><p>Sourcecode for that is on GitHub:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MichaelSchoebel&#x2F;DeuSu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MichaelSchoebel&#x2F;DeuSu</a><p>So yes, you can (still) do actual stuff in Pascal. Even pretty cutting-edge stuff.