As a developer how do you choose your languages? By popularity, capabilities or requirements?

You don't choose a language, the language choOses you. There's some that I tried to choose but they never felt right, and then there's a lot of languages I stumbled upon randomly and now I use them all the time

1) can I get paid to use it?
2) do I like it?
3) does it have decent documentation and / or community?

Those 3 are usually good enough for me. I’m not that picky, unless it’s something absolutely horrifying like objective c

@ars1 those are the only 3 I need

In some areas like mobile devices development, there are not many languages to choose from.

Native iOS? C++ vs. Objective-C vs. Swift? A no brainer.

Native Android? Java vs. Kotlin? A no brainer.

Hybrid/Cross platform? There is only one language supported for each hybrid tech. A no brainer.

Never choose by popularity. See JavaScript. It’s the most popular language. If you consider yourself a serious developer, you choose a serious tool. Unless you are a clown, then you can pick whacky toy tools for your job.

SCR - Spaghetti Code Resistance

Ease of use.

Note that this is not the same thing as "ease of wanking out a hello world program".

@mostr4am the first I opened was a .bat file. Nowadays I wouldn't even touch that thing with a stick.

@mostr4am your mother made the remarks and got fired? If so, how can you be a SJW? Look how terrible that can be. Racism is not good - but losing your job (big part of your life and critical) over some remarks is just too much. A shame if she got fired for that

@jestdotty if you put penor in vegana you can get a 50/50
Trust me, I played devil may cry