Programming languages, much like the jackass in the middle, are tools. Different tools are for different things. The right tool for the job can make your day. The wrong tool can make you question your entire career.
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The programming language promotes a thinking model and the ecosystem defines a modus operandi.
Of course they matter.
That's why we use JavaScript on the front end, JavaScript on the back end, and you can streamline it even more by using JavaScript for the db layer too. After all, if you have too much data to be reasonably parsed in a single .json file, you are probably just architecting wrong.
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I like using python just cuz I can quickly get it working. I wish I had the time to undust C and try getting that to do what I want but my work cares more about iteration and speed to implement than speed of the program itself.
But, Haskell..., it's so well thought out, so evolved, the best of all functional programming in one, the ability to handle infinite lists, the lazy evaluation, the strict type checking, the compiler that catches whole classes of bugs, the curt syntax, the ability to breathe it like pure thought, the clarity like maths...
Okay, sorry, I better leave the room too.
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Ngl changing paradigms can have the problems do a 180.
I hate leetcode but it's surprisingly fun to code certain questions in prolog when final outcome with error checking is like 15 lines.
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This is pretty smart for the left guy. He's usually down at the level of "HTML is a programming language" or "What's a programming language?".
That said, the first one of those isn't mutually exclusive with what he says in the meme.
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I'm only a hobbyist no skin in the game but as an engineer first programmer second I feel like how you design the architecture of your logic and how you choose to prioritize computational optimization or feature implementation have a much bigger impact than language. Obviously theres a time and place like using luajit instead of lua if you really need that speed boost, but in big complex programs I'm willing to bet lazy programmers skip optimization steps and copy paste thousands of lines to ship quickly regardless how performance optimized the underlying language is.
I make a module that does a specific thing for version 1, after initial bug patches and maybe a feature addition theres usually an epithany that the logic can be generalized into an api type registry structure that allows the code to be reused and configured as needed on per item basis. Along the way you do stuff like ask what the not expensive calls are, add accumulator timers to reduce unneeded CPU usage , ensure early returns are up top when it makes sense, choosing to render a cleverly crafted sprite instead of a full 3d entity.
A conditional if then logic loop Is a logic loop no matter what Turing complete language its written in. What really matters is how you use the loop not which syntax its written in.
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The only people who say that are mentioned in Forbes.
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The most important thing is using Rust, be it only to avoid calls for a rewrite in Rust by people like me
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The available libraries, operating system, and hardware platform pay a bigger role than the programming language. Often the choice of language follows the tool chain and frameworks that fit with the intended program.
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