> Do you guys think there is in theory, the best programming language, or will this always be subjective
I think there is only best for what it was design for. We should compare the language goals with other language with similar goals.
Elixir/Erlang's goal makes it quite possibly one of the best language for concurrency.
R is the best language, so far, for statistic and researcher implementing their latest paper in. It also have FFI for C++/C so if things are too slow.
Once you start to compare a general programming language such as Python it gets a bit harder to say "best" because it seems to want to do everything. It's much easier to do a few things correct/good than it is to do a lot of things good/correct.
With this mind set, we can just be more objective and choose right language for the right task, instead of picking the one language to rule them all.
edit/update: This is before we even account for the ecosystem and software around the language.
I think there is only best for what it was design for. We should compare the language goals with other language with similar goals.
Elixir/Erlang's goal makes it quite possibly one of the best language for concurrency.
R is the best language, so far, for statistic and researcher implementing their latest paper in. It also have FFI for C++/C so if things are too slow.
Once you start to compare a general programming language such as Python it gets a bit harder to say "best" because it seems to want to do everything. It's much easier to do a few things correct/good than it is to do a lot of things good/correct.
With this mind set, we can just be more objective and choose right language for the right task, instead of picking the one language to rule them all.
edit/update: This is before we even account for the ecosystem and software around the language.