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Ask HN: What technologies and programming paradigms are underused?

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Some technologies and programming patters have been life altering to me. My list is probably quite mundane, so I'm wondering what technologies and programming patterns affected you most but are also lesser known or underused in your opinion?

Here is my list:

Technologies:

- BabelJS

- Kafka

- Graphql

- Rx

Patterns:

- Event Sourcing

- Effect Monad

- RAII + Object Pool

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I'm a big fan of Parse Server, but it seems to have some stigma ever since Facebook open sourced it. It runs better than many other frameworks; you can set up a full stack thing with mobile accessing a cloud database and storing photos in about an hour.

Array Programming languages like APL & J are super cool to me and I wish they had more of a following.

J has "tacit programming" where you basically can write hyper general and terse programs with it still being readable. I just wish performance was more in line with Java.

  Smalltalk -> proper OOP
  Lisp -> pragmatic functional programming
  Prolog -> logic programming

In some aspects, these are better than mainstream languages but for various reasons failed to get popularity.

Using Kafka at work tight now. Really enjoying it.

- Semantic web

- Prolog

- Idris/Agda/Coq

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