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> Those languages are also not very popular at all today. Perhaps "small and beautiful" are not the right metrics to optimize programming languages for. Perhap
by mhuffman 7y ago
> Those languages are also not very popular at all today. Perhaps "small and beautiful" are not the right metrics to optimize programming languages for.
Perhaps popularity isn't.
- Smithalicious 7y agoI think that popularity is probably indicative of other qualities of a language, and at the very least, I think being popular is a good feature in itself (in terms of getting support, libraries, documentation etc)
- pjmlp 7y agoPlatforms are products that sell languages, not the other way around. So being popular just means having the luck to be on a platform that is doing well. Usually most programming languages fade way when that platform stops being relevant, as history has proven a couple of times.