Favorite programming languages of MIT Computer Scientists

MIT computer science grad students and postdocs talk about what's their favorite programming language and why.

[parkerqueen]

Wait, is it an advertisement for Python?

[Irrazzo]

Python: 8
C#: 1

I really expected that MIT guys would be a bit more diverse in their language preferences.

[dzilbxp]

title of this video should be:

'Favorite Python programming language of MIT Computer Scientists'

[Pedro-dnsg]

C is the perfect language for me. People say it's complicated, but I think it's quite elegant and straightforward. I can't understand why people want to stay away from types, pointers, and managing their memory.

[jsuswinurd]

python is good for more elaborated tasks like working on Machine Learning (my research area since junior year) but C got my heart since the beginning since it's so intuitive for me, also C++ and C# are awesome!

[schemer]

Haskell. Because you can understand the whole program no matter how big it is. And thanks to its composability it requires less code than any other language I know of. It's also easy on the eyes and it provides a lot of joy in creating your own functions and combining them with an ease that other languages don't have.

[jeffreyhicks]

I wish I could high5 the guy who said C#

[mdyousufali]

C++ is the language that let you become what you want to be but it comes with price and that is where most people takes it to make it least liked programming language. People don't like freedom, at least when it comes to programming language. As our hardware don't get better everyday (Moor's law) so we need a programming language that let you work with hardware also at the same time highly abstracted: in this case C++ is sensible option.

[weitaojia]

the most omnipotent and versatile language definitely is c++ . But with the new arrival of more options of more convenient language with simple syntax, it's difficult to predict whether it will be superseded or not. At present it will still maintain its supreme and preponderant and ruling role

[t.son]

The guy at 0:46 hates them all equally! lol

[sudarshanv]

Python = pseudocode, so every computer scientist likes it

[alextsantilis]

Ada because although it takes a bit more time to build things, it's an compiled language that is designed to prevent you from writing very dangerous bugs, and scales nicely to large systems.

[vadim]

"I LOVE PYTHON COS IT'S SO EASY". I thought only the smartest people study at MIT

[pataocemapataocema]

Their eyes kinda intimidate me it's like theyre talking to my brain "Im controlling your minds"

[AshishGupta-cywt]

Occupation: computer scientist
Programming language: python
University: MIT
Life: set
Hotel: trivago

[CodingWithKids]

Python 🐍 is cool, we are learning and also making videos to teach others!

[julien]

1:32 "when you enter the Low Level things in python"

- how can "Low Level" and "Python" be said together in the same sentence ?

[Jimming]

Let's hear their favorite Python libraries

[yash]

0:46 yeah, that's some good guy 😂😂
1:54 yay, Matrix operations for the win

[MaksymCzech]

I've loved every programming language I used extensively:
- I have learned programming in Turbo Pascal, and I have used it write bots for Ultima Online and it was amazing :)
- I have then used php for a very long time to develop web pages, and I still use it if I need to parse some content from web pages or do some small task on a local machine
- I am now developing applications in JavaScript and I love it
- I am studying Robotics in Czech Technical University and we use Python for machine learning and Matlab for control theory stuff. I like Matlab better than Python.