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Why does it always has to be language 1 vs language 2? "Better" is hardly something objective about languages. This is why people are still building new languag

Why does it always has to be language 1 vs language 2? "Better" is hardly something objective about languages. This is why people are still building new languages every year. To make things "better", although ultimately a bunch of others will find quite a big list of why they don't like it. Just pick whatever language you like. As long as you have good tooling and community around it, it won't be neither the best nor the worst choice... It's just "a choice"... Projects hardly fail because of the language itself (although there are some well known failures with dynamically typed languages). It's mostly bad architectural or business decisions...

hackerbrother 6y ago
I think that in comparison, what happened with Javascript has been great honestly. People have been completely stuck with it, so we've built a great server side (Node.JS / npm / yarn) and client side (React, Vue, Typescript, Babel) ecosystem around it. I think great things can happen if you stick with a language and work with that limitation.
- thrower123 6y ago
  Things will be really exciting once WebAssembly finally breaks through (Next year in Jerusalem!...) and we're not forced to compile better programming languages to Javascript.
dep_b 6y ago
> "Better" is hardly something objective about languages. Rust is better than C C# is better than Java You can talk about tooling, environments, how many people use it, what you can use it for, but when it really boils down to the language there are languages that are better than others while trying to achieve the same. I mean I use Elixir for other things than Swift or Rust or F#, Elixir is the best language for highly concurrent "message passing" systems. Some features of Elixir that I don't immediately like like it's type system unlock possibilities that no other languages have. But I don't see anything like that in Java, unless I really look around in 1993 and the only competitors are C++ and nobody-uses-it-yet Python.

hackerbrother 6y ago

I think that in comparison, what happened with Javascript has been great honestly. People have been completely stuck with it, so we've built a great server side (Node.JS / npm / yarn) and client side (React, Vue, Typescript, Babel) ecosystem around it. I think great things can happen if you stick with a language and work with that limitation.

thrower123 6y ago
Things will be really exciting once WebAssembly finally breaks through (Next year in Jerusalem!...) and we're not forced to compile better programming languages to Javascript.

dep_b 6y ago

> "Better" is hardly something objective about languages. Rust is better than C C# is better than Java You can talk about tooling, environments, how many people use it, what you can use it for, but when it really boils down to the language there are languages that are better than others while trying to achieve the same. I mean I use Elixir for other things than Swift or Rust or F#, Elixir is the best language for highly concurrent "message passing" systems. Some features of Elixir that I don't immediately like like it's type system unlock possibilities that no other languages have. But I don't see anything like that in Java, unless I really look around in 1993 and the only competitors are C++ and nobody-uses-it-yet Python.