| ▲ | jxjnskkzxxhx 2 days ago | |||||||
Does anyone else find interesting that people who write blog posts saying "my favourite language is X", it's never a mainstream language..? | ||||||||
| ▲ | mrkeen 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Successful language designers select for what's popular, not what's good. C++ intersected the mass of C programmers with the new OO fad, and kept all of C's warts. Had Stroustrup made C++ better, he wouldn't have an army of adopters who already knew C. Maybe merit will win out in the long run [1]? I'm not hopeful. Java needed to be close enough to C++, and C# to Java. And Brendan Eich joined Netscape to "put Scheme in the browser". [1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c_creator_calls_for_a... | ||||||||
| ▲ | pantsforbirds 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
My favorite language is Python, but I wouldn't write a blog post about it because no one would care. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | iLemming 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
> people who write blog posts ... never a mainstream language Don't you find it amusing that food critics usually write about little-known or new restaurants and never do any fast-food chain reviewing? | ||||||||
| ▲ | siknad 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
New mainstream languages are rarer than new better (in some way that can be favorable) languages. | ||||||||