Most languages are general purpose languages. The often repeated notion that languages are tools in a toolbox, where one is a hammer and another is a saw is re

Most languages are general purpose languages. The often repeated notion that languages are tools in a toolbox, where one is a hammer and another is a saw is really a very terrible analogy. For the vast majority of software projects, there is no "right tool" language, you can literally just use the best language. The issue is more than people do not agree on what is the best language. I would say it is more often the case that the availability of a particular library or framework pushes one language as being preferable for a task than anything about the language itself being especially suited for that task.