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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 5 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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[–] RoyaltyInTraining 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The thing it can do best is bewilder developers with it's strange choices

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i wouldn't want to program in pure assembly either but asm is definitely powerful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I would argue that ASM isn't "powerful". It's direct. You can access advanced features of a CPUs architecture with the trade off limited portability. Sometimes it's necessary but power comes from being able to express complex control and data structures in a concise and readable amount of text.

The subjective topic of what "concise and readable" means is where the language wars come in.