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> it's also hard to make it to a mainstream language without a hugely popular project that's associated to it. As long as it's a good language, why do we care

• skohan 6y ago
  Mostly ecosystem and community support. There are a lot of interesting languages out there, but it's hard to do interesting things with them if they're missing support. Zig might be in a good position here as it has very nice C interop, which lets you leverage the past 30 years of programming history, but it's still got a ways to go before it will be "ready for primetime" from the look of it.
• 5mixer 6y ago
  I use a non-mainstream language, Haxe. - There are extremely few jobs that recognise it. I'm attempting to learn C++ because of this. - Documentation can be lacking as there isn't as much demand for it, or people with time to write it. That said, personal support in small communities can be great. - Smaller library ecosystem. - Survival of the language into the future is less certain without the financial support mainstream languages have. I've used Haxe for years despite these points, it's a great language. A language is more than it's engineering though.