What makes different programming languages “better” than others? Or more powerful? Why have different languages developed over time? Are they all based on the same thing?

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What makes different programming languages “better” than others? Or more powerful? Why have different languages developed over time? Are they all based on the same thing?

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Something that I don’t see here is the community. Different languages have different communities developing different libraries. If I want to do biological analysis, there is a great community of people who have developed and will help me use fantastic libraries for that in Python or R. That’s not really true for Javascript even though, technically, it could be used to complete the same work.

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