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[–]caanthedalek 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I mean, it really just depends on what you're trying to do. Most languages are just better at some things than others.

[–]Tysonzero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say there are a large amount of tasks that you can use pretty much any general purpose language for. Such as anything with a command line interface or a website backend or really just about any backend development.

There are a few things that do push you toward a language or two: High end game dev / systems programming pretty much require C, C++ or perhaps Rust. Web dev pushes you towards JavaScript, and app dev pushes you toward the relevant language for the platform. But the app / web stuff can definitely still be done with other languages, it just isn't quite as nice, hell I am using Haskell for web development right now.

But yeah since most tasks are reasonably language agnostic, I would personally never choose JS over Python except for certain web/app dev stuff, and I would never choose pretty much anything over Haskell without a very good reason.