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It depends what you do. Most of these languages are general purpose but might be better suited for specific needs.

Go: It is really good for web apis and making cli apps

Rust: Suited for system level very high performance computation

Swift: Mostly for apple ecosystem

Kotlin: It might be most general purpose language, can be used for mobile apps, Web backend, native development



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