Why is everyone using HTML/CSS/JS?

Question

I’m new to SoloLearn and having looked at other discussions, it seemed that C++ may be a good starting point to learn the basics of coding. However the more I look on the feed and different challenges/discussions, they all say “only code in HTML/CSS/JS”

Or that a lot of people have learnt HTML/CSS/JS/PHP...and not so much C++.

Why are these coding languages popular amongst the SoloLearn community? Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks

Answer 1

Simply because it's visually attractive and efficient in the Code Playground. Web have all the cool stuffs with animations and allow user interaction too! 😉

Not to mention it's fast in SoloLearn as it was directly rendered using the device's WebView unlike other languages, which have to wait for the cloud server to return the result.

Answer 2

Languages like C++ are for making programs, whereas HTML/CSS/JS/PHP are all to do with Web development.

It entirely depends on what you want to do, software development or Web development.

Answer 3

CSS and HTML are not programming languages. it's also generally accepted that CSS and HTML are much easier to learn than a programming language like c++. I suspect the reason why html and CSS are more popular is that you can actually see the results of what you make much more easily
with CSS and HTML and they are also easier to learn.

Answer 4

Web programs (HTML, CSS, & JS) can run with interactive input from the user on SoloLearn, while other programs must have all input entered prior to the start of the program. That is why it is my preferred way to code, unless my input is extremely simple so I use Java. I'm still learn these 4 languages.