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Of course you can code even in Brainfuck if you want. But the difference in time and quality would easily be in orders of magnitude.
> Granted, it takes a while to learn a language's API, but essentially all of them do similar things.
Uhm, no, not nearly. Languages are far too different, and all of them are very specialised. There is no such thing as a general-purpose language.
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Of course you can code even in Brainfuck if you want. But the difference in time and quality would easily be in orders of magnitude.
> Granted, it takes a while to learn a language's API, but essentially all of them do similar things.
Uhm, no, not nearly. Languages are far too different, and all of them are very specialised. There is no such thing as a general-purpose language.