The most fun language I've used is QuakeC, because the only thing you can do with it is write Quake mods. It was a pretty neat language too from what I remember. It even automatically detected infinite loops!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

We all have different definitions of "fun." C won't surprise you when you try to add a string and an array; it'll do exactly what you told it to do, which then translates to assembly code with a very predictable pattern.

On a different note, bash scripting is well-defined and mostly consists of understanding that common tools can be chained together to provide useful output; combined with the very well-defined string operations, I've found that bash scripts can address over 99% of cases people try to throw sed and awk at. It's almost surprisingly powerful.

JavaScript is just a hot fucking mess.