How I decide between many programming languages
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How I decide between many programming languages
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Re: How I decide between many programming languages
#2While a useful and entertaining comparison, I feel like a major difference is between "unicorn" languages (languages having only a single implementation and runtime/ecosystem) vs. standardized languages having multiple compilers/implementations such as C and JS (and LISP), though people are throwing JS's advantage of being standardized and one of the must ubiquitous languages around away by choosing not-quite-JS languages such as TS and coffescript before that as the first thing when they're about to start a project).
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#3Interesting! I'd have put PHP and C++ at the very top of the list, then reverse the whole list. As a rule, I'd much rather start with a language that makes it easy to spot massive vulnerabilities, and then move towards a speedier and more volatile language where needed.
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#4It’s under the “I don’t like line”, but I came away from this feeling like I should look into Ruby.
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#5The list may be entertaining, but displays little in the way of objectivity. For instance, OOP is a major con of C++ (even though many people write C++ all day without any of it) but isn't even mentioned with regards to Java and C#? Really?
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#6The list may be entertaining, but displays little in the way of objectivity. For instance, OOP is a major con of C++ (even though many people write C++ all day without any of it) but isn't even mentioned with regards to Java and C#? Really?
Similarly, only Rust has "non-standardized, only one meaningful implementation" listed as a con, even if this is true for several of the others as well.
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#7"every PHP programmer is bad at programming, the language is designed to accommodate them with convenient footguns (or faceguns) at every step, and the ecosystem is accordingly bad. No, PHP7 doesn’t fix this. Use a real programming language, jerk."
This guy seems like a real open minded person who did his research and shared his opinion after making strong points. /s
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#8"every PHP programmer is bad at programming, the language is designed to accommodate them with convenient footguns (or faceguns) at every step, and the ecosystem is accordingly bad. No, PHP7 doesn’t fix this. Use a real programming language, jerk." This guy seems like a real open minded person who did his research and shared his opinion after making strong points. /s
yep, stopped reading after this. How can this be objective if you think that everyone is a "bad" programmer that uses this or that language, wtf.
Pros for PHP could be, it's templating capabilities with HTML, easy to use DB interfaces and the entanglement with the web/HTML/web-server in general. Nowadays you don't really write these kinds of apps anymore where your backend returns whole HTML Pages but that doesn't mean it's a bad language.
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#9What's the issue with Java package management? If that's a Java con, what should be said about Python's?
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#10Strange that the availability of developers who can actually be recruited for the given languages isn't listed as a factor.