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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Same thing that make might a semi-truck better than a sedan, or a large sledghammer better than a jewelers hammer. Different tools for different jobs, but all are valid. Some are just newer though, and since nobody knows the future, a new language that tackles the same domain as an older language might be better simply because it can be built with the tools people didn’t know they needed a decade ago.
Some languages are designed for the web (Javscript), some for backend systems (Rust, C). Some were designed in the 1970s when every single 1 and 0 was precious and thus dug in roots since everything was built with them (C++), while others were designed with more modern features like supporting multi-core CPUs, and computers that can actually handle more than 64k of memory (Rust, GO).
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