Language or Framework?

Most of the time, people outside of IT, are lost because they do not know exactly the difference between a framework and a language to create applications. You can have more details about what a framework is, following my previous article here: https://www.garudax.id/pulse/what-framework-jonathan-rombeau

In the web development world, one of the most known language is HTML but there are so many more if you want to create an application whether it is a client-side or server-side application.

HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. Web pages can be considered as documents designed to de displayed in a web browser. It is associated most of the time with different frameworks. People are often confused about HTML because of that but HTML can be simply used with a simple text editor like notepad on Windows. It is independent from any framework.

Languages are generally tied to frameworks, it is a syntax, grammar, semantics supported by a framework. The language will help you in communicating with the framework to use its tools and create your application.

The confusion comes also often because Java is both a language and a framework (it has also other languages) where .Net is a framework that has many languages that use it (C#, VB.Net, F# and many more).

There are languages tighter to a specific application domain:

• C# is a simple, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language
• F# is a cross-platform, functional programming language. It also includes object-oriented and imperative programming
• Visual Basic is an approachable language with a simple syntax for building type-safe, object-oriented apps
• Python is an interpreted, high-level, and general-purpose programming language
• Prolog is a logic programming language associated with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics

As you understand now, depending on what type of domain, application the developer must focus on, there are multiple choices available in the language programming universe.