> The syntax of your language doesn't change its performance when running. No need to bring up syntax. It's a superficial feature and has nothing to do with th

> The syntax of your language doesn't change its performance when running. No need to bring up syntax. It's a superficial feature and has nothing to do with the actually important features I listed. > Does it make me write worse software if I'm aware of those quirks? Most certainly not. Is there some limit where good language features stop mattering? I guess we would obviously agree that creating web software with x86 assembler wouldn't be a good idea -- even if we could imagine a comparable library/framework situation.