As someone who dislikes clutter, in my experience it's just easier to read and write with these languages: Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Smalltalk.

If you dare leave the safety of a compiler you'll find that Sublime Merge can still save you when rewriting a whole part of an app. That and manual testing (because automatic testing is also clutter).

If you think it's more professional to have a compiler I'd like to agree but then why did I run into a PHP job when looking for a Typescript one? Not an uncommon unfolding of events.

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FungalRaincloud 3 days ago | parent [-]

I'm a bit surprised that you put PHP in that list. My current workload is in it, and a relatively modern version of it, so maybe that surprise will turn around soon, but I've always felt that PHP was more obnoxious than even C to read and write.

Granted, I started out on LISP. My version of "easy to read and write" might be slightly masochistic. But I love Perl and Python and Javascript are definitely "you can jump in and get shit done if you have worked in most languages. It might not be idiomatic, but it'll work"...

	▲	dominicrose 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		PHP is easy to get into because of the simple (and tolerant) syntax and extremely simple static typing system. The weak typing also means it's easier for beginners. It does require twice the lines of PHP code to make a Ruby or Python program equivalent, or more if you add phpdoc and static types though, so it is easier to read/write Ruby or Python, but only after learning the details of the language. Ruby's syntax is very expressive but very complex if you don't know it by heart.