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by jacquesm
1545 days ago
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In a way it makes perfect sense. When I look into my toolbox I see a whole pile of different saws, each of which has a specific usecase, metal, wood, living wood, trees, joinery, figure work, glass+ etc. The one-tool-to-fit-all-usecases programming language hasn't been invented yet as far as I can see. + technically, probably more of a grinder because the blade is covered with diamond dust, but you use it like a saw. |
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Well, just like you can use a screwdriver to pound a nail into the wall (flip it handle-first), you could use C or Rust or Go or Java or...nearly anything to build...nearly anything if you really _forced_ it hard enough, had infinite time, expert labor and budget, but...
...there are better tools for the job of pounding a nail into the wall than a screwdriver! ;-)
In other words, I totally agree with you. Sure, you could build, oh I dunno, say a compute-intensive application entirely in, say, Ruby, but you'd need to throw some ungodly expensive hardware at it. Makes a lot more sense to use the right tool for the job!