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The One Best Programming Language (intellectronica.net)
3 points by intellectronica on Aug 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I can not take seriously opinion about programming languages from the person who thinks that Kotlin is DSL for mobile programming.

Also, person who thinks that "Java is in every way worse than C#" don't know a lot about VMs and runtimes.

Sorry.

Edit: and spell Perl as PERL. Oh my.


I think despite the glitches the analysis is overall quite sound; personally I've come to the exact same conclusion (TypeScript + Rust, except that for me it's CoffeeScript + Rust). The browser is a powerful argument for JS runtimes, and now that WebAssembly has become a thing, programmers have an ever wider choice of languages to use locally and in the browser, or locally with the browser if a graphical interface is needed. JS could be so much better if TC39 decided to add a `use sane` pragma, but even so there's no going back to Python, switching to the JVM or any other one-language-only VM for me.




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