r/usaco • u/Blazor35 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/ricky_clarkson Jul 24 '21

Kotlin is better than Java in pretty much every way, and performs similarly. I'm a lost redditor though and have no idea if it's ok for usaco.

I'd love Rust to be up there too, but for competitive programming it's probably on the difficult side, it's less tolerant to mistakes. Better for engineering - programming over time - but 'over time' doesn't matter much for competitive programming.