system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are there so many different programming languages, and what's the difference?

C, C+, C++, C#, Python, ruby to name a few, surely there can't be that many differences or something you can do on one that you can't do on another?
gpt
This is because everybody is free to develop a programming language. Besides that everybody has his own taste and requirements. There are languages which are for example more suited for web or standard applications, others may be more low-level to build more specialized stuff.

Languages can evolve or fork into different tastes, or die out over time. Popular languages will often have big and active communities who contribute to it's development and deliver standard building blocks which can be reused by other developers.