These days System Programming field is gaining more and more traction when it comes to career. But it can be a bit confusing when it comes to the difference between the System Programming Languages and Application Programming Languages. Lets! clear some thing out.

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1. Some Differences Between system and application programming languages

First lets discuss some differences between the two.

Point - 1:

System Programming Language : They are low level/procedural programming laguage, which are directly or indirectly compiled by a compiler.

Application Programming Language: They are high level/procedural/structural languages which are interpreted by a interpreter.

Point - 2:

System Programming Languages: They are statically typed

Application Prorgamming Languages: They are dynamically typed

Point - 3:

System Programming Language : They are used to develop system applications or programs which never directly interacte with the user

Application Prorgamming Languages: They can directly interact with the user or can sometime used in some back-stage programs such as browser engine(made with JS), testing tools(made with python) etc.

Point - 4:

System Programming Language : They are generally very fast compared to application programming languages

Application Prorgamming Languages: Relatively slow, as these are interpreted in runtime.

Point - 5:

System Programming Language : They can inteeract with system memory, so they can access the address of saved memory. Examples: pointers in C, C++, GO and smart pointers in Rust

Application Prorgamming Languages: They don’t have access to address of saved memory.

Point - 6:

System Programming Language : Examples of system programming languages are C, C++, GO, Rust etc.

Application Prorgamming Languages: Examples of application programming languages are JavaScript, Python, Dart, PHP etc.

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2. In some ways both of the languages are similar

• Some examples of both type of the languages support Object Oriented Programming Paradigm.(Examples: C++, Python, JavaScript)

• Both type of languages support framework development(Examples: Hugo in GO, Cake in PHP, Django in Python, Express in JavaScript)

• We can use both type of langauges for efficient scientific comupations.(Examples: julia, R, python etc)

Hello World

Hello World program in a system programming language(GO):

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello Blur Code!")
}

Hello World program in a application programming language(Python):

print("Hello Blur Code!")

Let us know, which is your favorite programming language and why ?

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