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As the old mantra goes, "there are two types of languages, the ones that everyone complains about, and the ones that nobody uses".
by majewsky 7y ago
As the old mantra goes, "there are two types of languages, the ones that everyone complains about, and the ones that nobody uses".
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoThat's true because the more first-mover-y languages that came to dominate are shit compared to subsequent, more innovative ones. When the latter become dominant, there should be even more subsequent, innovative ones. And the cycle will repeat. But it's less net shittiness with every generation. And how many generations are we even in so far? C is '70s security gore, C++ is an '80s attempt to force OO memes that we've come to regret onto the '70s security gore, Python and Java are '90s OO memes in earnest, JavaScript and PHP were kludgy mistakes slapped together in a fit of desperate confusion to get some web shit to run, aaand...