The people trying to save programming from itself
It&#x27;s interesting how often we see these articles (and associated discussions) saying that programming is harder than it should be, and that if only we had a better language, it would be much easier.<p>In my experience, choice of language makes only a superficial difference to the difficulty of a project. The real challenge is always figuring out exactly what you&#x27;re trying to do, and exactly how you&#x27;re going to achieve it. And these questions aren&#x27;t solved by a language because they&#x27;re questions about your project itself, not about the implementation.<p>Sure, some toolchains are better suited to some types of project - I would really not want to do serious number crunching in JavaScript, or an interactive GUI in COBOL. But there&#x27;s generally at least one (and usually bogglingly many more) solid, freely available toolchains to suit any given application.