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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stop comparing programming languages

Python is versatile
JavaScript is powerful
Ruby is elegant
C is essential
C++
Java is robust

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Python is powerful because it easily wraps C libraries that do real work! Just kidding mostly.

Not kidding. There's no rule against that though. It's good at it's niche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does that not put JS (node) back on the table?

I'd say it's the low level language doing the heavy lifting, python or JS in this scenario are just front-ends.

Hell, I think FORTH has C bindings, that's not power, that's mental illness

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but there are good and bad frontends. JavaScript has a tendency to silently fly off the handle in mysterious ways due to the crazy type system. Python will typically fail more predictably, and is famously easy to write. I know nothing about FORTH, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Dw, no one does.