Which is the strongest programming language?

Java

Some say Java is the most popular. Others say it is C, C++ or C#. It may depend on the definition of the Word popular. Is it the most compilers downloaded or sold? Is it about the largest number of programs (of any size) written, the largest number of commercial applications, the most lines of code, or the most number of users of applications written in a language? It is all very subjective.

However, "most popular" does not equate to "best". Java is only suitable for writing applications software. Drivers, operating system kernels and embedded systems are typically written in C, C++ or assembly language, or some combination of the three. Such system programs need access to system tables, hardware commands and registers by accessing actual hardware addresses in memory. Java will not allow this.

More importantly, Java compiles to byte code rather than native machine code, thus Java programs execute much slower than their machine coded counterparts because the byte code must be interpreted (by the Java virtual machine) upon every execution. However, Java code only needs to be compiled once since the byte code will execute on any Java virtual machine on any hardware. Machine code programs must be recompiled separately for each machine architecture.