Best programming language for desktop application development

The one that has the most support for your environment

>>59737329
C++
>hurr durr features are bad
fuck off

>>59737329
Rust <3 <3
Language of the code artisans

>>59737329
>Best
Doesn't exist because there is no consistent metric for that.
Each language has advantages and disadvantages.

>>59737504
Go away with your reasoning and intelligent arguments.

>>59737497
>Made with <3 in San Francisco
I fucking hate those hipsters
Hopefully Yellowstone will blow up in my lifetime

common lisp

>>59737547
What's so common about lisp, I always wondered?

>>59737329
Haha, why of course my Peanus Weanus :-DD

>>59737329
Vala

COBOL

C#

>>59737329
HTML5 and JavaScript
:^)

>>59737329
Pascal

>>59737645
>>>59737329 (OP)
>Vala
That's literally the worst one.

>>59737624
It's an amalgam of ZetaLisp, MacLisp, InterLisp, and Scheme. DoD was worried about the fragmentation of Lisp and asked the biggest Lisp vendors to come up with an ANSI standard for the language that everyone could use.

If you want to know more history of Common Lisp, read this: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

>>59737663
This right here boy-o

>>59737329
C#+.NET

javascript

OCaml

>>59737329
C#, best GUI development on the market by far, good syntax, not fucked up by shitty design like Java