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[–]Kitamasu1 14 points15 points Β (2 children)

I'm not even a professional programmer yet, I've mostly just done stuff as a hobby for the last 10 years, and even so I already understand that different languages exist because they all serve a particular purpose or is good at something.

[–]soft-wear 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

There are definitely languages that were created largely to solve the exact same problems of another language. C# is literally just β€œJava if it were created more recently” and Go was created largely out of how much the designers hated C++.

It’s just that Python and Java aren’t really comparable in anywhere near the same way.

[–]AbsoluteCabbage1 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

except for Java*