My first language was obj-c, but I haven’t touched it in 4 years…
no, my first language is Java, but I do enjoy all the languages I code in.
Java is certainly a faster language to develop in while offering pretty good performance, but I was pleasantly surprised by how expressive C++11 is compared to java - barring wiring with java’s reflection capabilities, the C++11 code tended to be both clearer and shorter. With CLion IDE approaching the beta stage, I’m pretty excited about diving back into C++ again.
I tend to write some proprietary script + a parser for it,
suited for my needs when having a system that
has to process lots of specific instructions in batch, and has to be easily editable.
It usually only gets as complex as needed for the task.
Apart from that, Im using XML and SQL a lot.
I started a guild on world of warcraft, which got around 60 members, some people wanted a homepage, and I didn’t want to disappoint. I have kind of a big ego, and didn’t want to use a layout/template, because I wanted to be able to say it was my homepage, that I had done it. So I started to learn html and css 2007-01-07 was when I got the first version of the website online.
After that I wanted to learn more. Which got me to start with game maker and begin with php and I loved it. My friend gave me game maker pro to my birthday, and I started to make a multiplayer game since I now could use DLL files, and my friend liked the game, so I kept building on it, until I wanted to move on from game maker. I tried C++ but I never got into it, then I decided to try java which I ended up loving.
Now and then I went back to php, by that time my world of warcraft days was over, but I still wanted to make homepages, so I started to learn MySQL and javascript, and that’s is my programming history. Recently to learn how to do ajax calls, and is now using PDO to access my MySQL databases.