What criteria do you take

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 02:30:50 UTC, Cassio Butrico 
wrote:
> What criteria do you take into consideration for the choice of 
> a programming language.
> and why? does not mention what language would be, but what 
> criteria led them to choose.

First of all I want efficient generated code: fast and small.
Then I love also very small source code, so expressiveness 
matters too.