You're likely too young to remember the religious language wars, but I expect you'll see some of that here. The prosaic answer is that there are hundreds of la

You're likely too young to remember the religious language wars, but I expect you'll see some of that here. The prosaic answer is that there are hundreds of languages to choose from. In most cases we choose the one we know because that gets the task done quicker. In other cases the language is chosen for you; because existing code, or platform limitations or embedded or whatever. There are lots of things to like about C - but it's slow to write because it's so low-level. Even dealing with strings is painful. On the other hand it is low-level, so it's fast, and small. In some cases that is important. Which is all to say that "context matters" and the context matters much (much) more than persons choice. We have lots of languages precisely because we have so many contexts.