Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programming language is best?

[m1sta_]

Packages and popularity aside, what programming language do you personally think has the best balance of brevity, expressiveness, and readability

[manx]

Scala got lots of details right. The ecosystem is not as big as e.g. typescript but I'm already using it exclusively to build full stack apps in production.

[neutrino007]

C# Developer productivity is unbeatable.

[ilovhn]

Java. <3

[m1sta_ → ilovhn]

You don't find it verbose?

[ilovhn → m1sta_]

Yeah but that's quite a small issue i think.

[graylien]

Swift ?