What Programming Language For Linux Development?

k33l0r writes "Recently I've been thinking about developing (or learning to develop) for Linux. I'm an IT university student but my degree program focuses almost exclusively on Microsoft tools (Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, etc.) which is why I would like to expand my repertoire on my own. Personally I'm quite comfortable in a Linux environment, but have never programmed for it. Over the years I've developed a healthy fear of everything Java and I'm not too sure of what I think of Python's use of indentation to delimit blocks. The question that remains is: what language and tools should I be using?"

Comments

Re:Learn C and Python

[AuMatar]

And seriously, if you use a decent text editor, in a few weeks you'll forget Python's indentation conventions ever bothered you.

Yup, because you will have dropped the language entirely by then.

I've worked with it professionally. We had on average 4 bugs a week due to the indentation bullshit, each of which took multiple hours to debug. It was not just inefficient, it was counter-productive. Python is absolutely unusable on real world projects (any project where you aren't the sole developer) due to that indentation crap.

Re:Join the club

[Creepy Crawler]

So how do you plan to pay off your student loans if you are unwilling and/or cannot stand to sell software?

Re:I like Python

[OAB_X]

Four, not five.

I'm sorry already! It's not like I actually do python programming.