Selecting the optimal programming language for the job

Selecting the optimal programming language for the job isn't always easy or straightforward. Therefore I want to give an outline.

  • Android: Kotlin
  • MacOS/iPadOS/iOS: Swift
  • Windows: C#
  • Server/Distributed systems: Golang
  • Hardware-level/Speed: C
  • Operating systems: Rust
  • Real-time: C, Rust
  • AI: Python, later maybe Mojo
  • Space: formally verifyable language, The Power of 10
  • GPU: CUDA (Nvidia), HIP (AMD)
  • Scripting: Shell, Bash, Golang
  • OOP: Java
  • Data Visualization/Statistics: R, Python
  • Math: Matlab, GNU Octave, Julia
  • To keep an eye out for: Carbon, Gleam, Mojo

There are also interesting projects like Flutter and React Native, though it is important to know that they are not be as performant as native applications and can have a non-native look and feel. Thus there is a trade-off in the user-experience for better cross-development ability and simpler code.


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