Eli5: What is the difference between various programming languages? Dont they all do the same thing?
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Programming languages are tools. Tools are purpose built to solve a problem. They’re great at solving that specific problem, and not much else.
Such is the nature of programming languages.
There’s no one language that does it all. Gotta pick the right tools for the job. Sometimes that’s Java, or C#, or Python, or C++, etc.
Of course if you abstract enough its possible that one language does “do it all,” but at a ridiculous cost I imagine.
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