What is the best programming language?
To date I have been in this world of software development for more than 3 and a half years, there have been quite a few anecdotes and learnings that I have acquired along the way, and I have dabbled in several programming languages. It is fascinating to see how university and more importantly, self-learning, take you to places you would never have thought you would go. But questions and concerns have also arisen along the way, some already resolved and others still in process. Today I come to give you my humble opinion about what I consider to be the best language for programming, I hope you like it.
Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, C++, JavaScript, Go…And the list goes on, but I would be naive and a fool if I specifically said a name, it wouldn’t be fair to anyone and I think I still have a long way to go to say:
Language ‘X’ is the best.
What’s more, people who have been in the community for decades do not dare to give a fixed candidate, and it would be dishonest of me to give one. The good thing is that I have never had a candidate for best programming language because I think that no language is the best, they all have their pros and cons, their strengths and weaknesses depending on the context and use that you want to give to each one. For example, R is very good when you work with statistical and scientific data, but don’t even think about making an information system in this language. PHP is a purely web-oriented language, and weak for the analysis of large volumes of data. It all depends on the situation we face. It is the developer and not the language who should be called the best, since it is the developer who brings out all the potential and should know it.
Each language is the best in its field, it would be unfair and very crazy to compare them, instead of breaking our heads and sometimes even arguing about which is the best programming language, we should ask ourselves and reflect on whether we are the best developing in that language, if we have solid fundamentals, if we understand the paradigm that X language handles, etc. Although now, languages that were not originally intended for one approach are jumping to new ones, for example: Python in its beginning was not intended to develop web applications, but today there are many who use Django to develop these applications, the same case for Java, and now we are coming to use Javascript on the server side. It is at that moment when languages become multi-functional and can be applied in almost all contexts, thus discrepancies arise.
Personally, the language I prefer when I’m going to code is ‘Python’, because it is very comfortable, and because it is very intuitive and explicit, I can also adapt to different problems using it. For web applications I have the Django, Flask or Web2py Frameworks, to develop games I have the Pygame library, for graphic applications I have PyQt, in addition to having libraries for managing scientific data…But the same thing could say another person about Java, and I would totally agree with him, (in addition I have also developed in Java), it is just a matter of taste, if you have solid foundations, jump from one language to another should not be a problem, and as developers we must know and understand more than a single language. But the point is, do you strive to be the best in your favorite language?
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