Sure, but the article is rather disparaging to the engineer spending their life in the so called ‘mainstream’ 99.5% of languages, implying their work is in some

Sure, but the article is rather disparaging to the engineer spending their life in the so called ‘mainstream’ 99.5% of languages, implying their work is in someway less ‘smart’ than those exploring the 0.5%. I am offering a counterpoint that instead, some ‘smart’ engineers have concluded that boring programming languages are the way to get big things done.