>  If you want to develop a user-facing application, APL may be a better
choice.

I think this comment is out of date. Certainly, early J had limited gui
facilities compared with APLs, but at least since J5, J has gui support
that is perfectly adequate for typical desktop applications. Moreover if
you really want something fancier, then you can write the gui in another
toolkit such as Qt or Electron and call J under the covers. Jqt is itself
written in Qt and calls J this way.

Apart from the gui, I find the J IDE to be much more productive than any of
APLs, which to me always seem rather clunky.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:15 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:

> If language exploration is your purpose, I think J offers more.  If you
> want to develop a user-facing application, APL may be a better choice.
>
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