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How to Choose Programming Language

 

    Factors to be considered:

    • Targeted Platform

    • Language domain match

    • Efficiency

    • Elasticity and Performance

    • Availability of libraries

    • Project size

    • Expressiveness & Time to production

    • Tool support

    Compare different languages

    JavaScript

    Main Use:

    Creating and developing websites

    Creating desktop applications and games

    Capabilities:

    1. Control the browser
    2. Edit content on a document that has been displayed
    3. Allow client-side scripts to communicate with users
    4. Asynchronous communication

    Advantages:

    1. Accepted and supported by all the major browsers without the need of any compilers or plug-ins

    2. Multi-paradigm language, has a combination of features

    3. Support functional and OOP styles

    Features:

    • Structured

    • **Dynamic**

      The types in JavaScript are not related with variables but with values.

    • **OOP**
    • Functional
    Java

    Capabilities:

    1. It must be a secure and robust programming language

    2. It must be an object-oriented, simple language which becomes familiar soon.

    3. It must be capable of being implemented and executed with high performance.

    4. It must be threaded, dynamic and interpreted.

    5. It must be portable and architecture-neutral.

    Features:

    • OOP
    • Class-based
    • Concurrent
    Python

    Features:

    • Dynamic
    • Automatic memory management
    • Large library
    • Support of many paradigms
    PHP

    Main Use:

    Server-side scripting language

    Web development

    As a general-purposed programming platform

    Capabilities:

    1. Can be embedded in HTML directly
    2. Most suitable for server-side programming that have server tasks being repeatedly performed when the website development process is on.

    Features:

    • Script language

      usually processed by an interpreter

    • Fast prototyping

    Ruby

    Main Use:

    Creating or programming of mobile apps and websites

    Most used in the web servers where is a lot of web traffic

    Advantages:

    1. Highly scalable
    2. Balances imperative programming with functional programming

    Features:

    • Dynamic

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