I read a lot of articles like this, and it's usually mentioned that their preferred language is expressive. Here it's mentioned as a dig against the top 10 lang

I read a lot of articles like this, and it's usually mentioned that their preferred language is expressive. Here it's mentioned as a dig against the top 10 languages, basically saying that they lack expressivity > make the language and syntax as simple as possible, and then even simpler at the expense of expressivity I understand why people say this because you can write these small highly condensed statements which would take a lot of code otherwise to do. I think it's probably the wrong word though. These languages generally prevent you from manually managing memory, which ironically makes expressing some designs or patterns impractical. If you want to express say writing a performant garbage collected language or something, a language like c or c++ is ironically more expressive than these other higher level functional languages with a runtime gc.