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Yeah, this seems like one of those "correlation is not causation" situations. If you noticed that languages many people loved were correlated to languages that
by Zarel 5y ago
Yeah, this seems like one of those "correlation is not causation" situations. If you noticed that languages many people loved were correlated to languages that were used for new projects, it seems crazy to eliminate "loved language causes people choose it for new projects" in favor of "people choose it for new projects causes loved language".
- mavelikara 5y agoThe article makes the observation that "loved languages don't have legacy codebases". Also, using Ruby as an example, it postulates that "once a language has enough legacy codebases, it stops being a loved language".
- meetups323 5y agoExcept it mentions C# as a loved language, which far up there in terms of legacy/enterprise-y.
- Gibbon1 5y agoI wonder what the 'ugh factor' is for old C# code bases vs those in other languages.
- mavelikara 5y agoI suspect there are two C#s in play here - the original C# in which many legacy/enterprise-y codebases are written, and the C# on .NET Core which is a fairly new ecosystem.