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I'd add some caveats to GP's comment, but I think it's mostly spot on. >"Rust or Go or C++?" Does one of these make memory problems easier to avoid? >"Python

I'd add some caveats to GP's comment, but I think it's mostly spot on. >"Rust or Go or C++?" Does one of these make memory problems easier to avoid? >"Python or Ruby?" One of these prioritises having a single way to do most tasks, while the other prioritises programmer expressiveness (simple example: "unless" is absent in Python). Thus one is easier to onboard newbies with and have them relatively quickly be able to read the code in their ecosystem, while the other allows skilled programmers to convey semantics more efficiently. I'll admit being mostly ignorant about the differences between Java and C#, but at least in general the languages you contrasted do make different things easier. Edit: grammar.

lucio 8y ago
>the differences between Java and C# Not much.
- cicero 8y ago
  Are you primarily targeting Microsoft platforms? If so, then C# might have the edge. Otherwise, you might prefer Java.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> One of these prioritises having a single way to do most tasks, while the other prioritises programmer expressiveness And yet, whatever they claim to prioritize, they aren't particularly different on those fronts. OTOH, they have radically different features even if both are dynamic multiparadigm languages, though it's true that decisions between languages often turn on ecosystem rather than language features independent of how different the language features are, and that's also true of Ruby vs. Python.