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Leslie_Hubertus
Ret. Employee
Jan 31, 2023

Programming languages

What do you consider the most useful programming languages? What is your favorite (most useful or not), and why? Do you have any tips for learning any of the languages you mentioned?
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Nikoolayy1
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Feb 03, 2023

Strange that I will say for automation Ansible and Terraform as they are the bridge between Developers and Admins and you become DevOps. I know that they are not exactly programming languages 😀 They have loops (Ansible now calls it a "loop" and not "with_xxx" , so there you go a loop, we are not going to talk why "if" is called " when") and conditions, so they are close to programming languages.

 

Also Javascript/Nodejs for scripting as if Big-IP NEXT can use the LX irules without the need of using normal iRules then it will be magic. Still having the normal iRules but LX iRules to have their own events and why not F5 XC/distributed cloud to also use NodeJS to allow the users to do some magic as this is called edge computing. I have used Javascript and jQuery for some frontend web code long ago and NodeJS in IBM Node Red for home automation and F5 uses Node Red for a free SIEM project as Node Red is  visual programming like for the SOAR systems (Splunk/Cortex etc.).