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grimhilde00 posted...

looks like Java and Python are more popular, and those are both good languages to learn.

From a design point of view I hate those languages. But yes, they are more popular. For good reasons? No. I just think they are more catchy for some reason.

Grudges with Python: Good luck deploying, it's slow as fuck, useless for a lot of things that are basic to most languages. Intellisense and autocomplete are hard to use, the syntax is arguably harder to use. Most overrated language of all time.

Java is just a slower version of C# that's harder to deploy. It was never meant to be used the way it is used and it shows. If you really understand what's going on under the hood, you know it's silly. Like Python, it's slow as fuck.

C++ is just ancient and a lot of things it does don't make sense. There are a lot of things you have to do manually that should be automated (writing header files ffs... do I live in 1980??) But it is the fastest and people who know how to use it love it as the "main" programming language, a step up from assembly that gives them the most control.

C# is like my dream come true, but the garbage collection will give you some nasty stutter because it holds your hand too much. Overall it is the easiest way to accomplish a task as quickly as possible with performance being "above average".

Interpreted languages are fundamentally flawed and should only be used in fringe cases (security, runtime code, browsers). Unless the dev environment demands it (other people demand you use it). I will go to the grave with this opinion. CPUs are fast? Great, make them 10 times faster by not interpreting your source code and instead using CPUs the way they were intended to be used.

I will concede that I desperately need to learn Javascript. No, I don't have a job that uses code development, it's just a hobby of mine.

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