It depends on what you're trying to do. A language without strong types might make tooling more difficult, not catch certain errors at compile time, make refac

It depends on what you're trying to do. A language without strong types might make tooling more difficult, not catch certain errors at compile time, make refactoring harder, and make working in teams harder. Or it might have little impact on you. A language without a GC will be more complicated for certain tasks as now you have to manage the memory. It's harder for beginners, and doesnt make sense in many environments. Then again a lack of GC may be necessary if you do embedded work. A language might let you write in one line of code, while another would take 20 lines for it. Is that more expressive? Maybe it's harder to maintain? Do you like white space? Maybe you do, maybe you don't. Many interpreted languages are slower then their native counter parts. Then again if your application doesn't need much compute performance, maybe it's worth it? Or maybe not. It's all pros and cons. You don't want to make a "hello web!" web application In assembly when ruby/python/etc can do it in a few easy to read and understand lines.