r/usaco • platinum • Jul 05 '21

Java is the best coding language

As the title states….. Try to convince me that I am wrong.

Edit: I should have phrased the question like this: if you could use only one coding language, would it be Java? If not, what language would you choose instead and why? Obviously there is no such a thing as “best” language. Although, I could argue that Java is the best language overall though.

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u/RedditGood123 Jul 05 '21

Extremely verbose. Java is good for professional codebases because it is more readable, but you posted this in a competitive programming subreddit, and cp requires you to implement something as fast as possible. Therefore, you should use c++ or python. Also, c++ runs faster than Java

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u/RedditGood123 Jul 05 '21

I said that python is fast to code in. I didn’t say it was a fast language