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> 1. They've never (significantly) used languages that are much better. Maybe they've only done PHP, JavaScript, Java, and C; and think that all languages are p

> 1. They've never (significantly) used languages that are much better. Maybe they've only done PHP, JavaScript, Java, and C; and think that all languages are pretty bad. And you don't even mention the languages that you think are better at certain points? I've mainly used perl, PHP and JavaScript (TypeScript) but I never blame the languages but just struggle to get the thing done while I'd imagine those people who keep complaining about languages (Is it so hard to learn a few best practices for a language?) barely get things done.

ragnese 6y ago
I didn't want to be accused of shilling or something. I really like Rust, Kotlin, and Swift right now. But I'd never try to use Swift outside of writing iOS or macOS apps, right now. I'm very excited about Scala 3 as well. I've never used Haskell on a real project, but I'd love to try it out "for real". I found Clojure and Elixir to both be well designed and ergonomic languages as well, but I'm really not a fan of dynamic typing. I didn't dislike TypeScript when I used it a couple of years ago, either. Mostly I just found the whole frontend ecosystem very overwhelming, but that wasn't the language's fault. Also, whatever to your passive aggressive remark that's supposed to imply that I don't get work done. That wasn't very nice.