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> certain architectures... work better and more intuitive if you use a different language.

This is the key point that people miss when pretending that languages are interchangeable. The entire point of making a programming language is to make certain types of ways to solve problems easier to express. This constitutes a language's "pretty path". By providing such pretty paths, languages necessarily make less desirable paths, which will be painful to slog through.

If you try writing a functional pipeline in Java, you're going to have a much worse time than doing the same in Elixir. If you try to do Object-Oriented class towers in Scheme, it's going to be painful. Etc, Etc. You can write a Rust program and a C program that compile to the exact same binary, but I can put a whole stack of cash on which one's going to be easier.



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