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What if it's not beating up on others, but being very critical of languages because you believe language choice actually does matter?

• xdennis 4y ago
  That's completely fair, but I FEEL (don't know for sure) that many people who criticize JavaScript don't know it very well and don't pick meaningful things to criticize, but things like its rubbish type coercions (which doesn't have a big impact in real life).
• rektide 4y ago
  You should a) pick big impact items to argue your case b) still acknowledge strengths & successes amid your critique. Also if you are facing the world's most popular language & a very successful one people build all sorts of stuff with without complaint, it's a big barrier. I think most language bigots lack a good narrative. They have a language they love, or a language they hate, but they harp upon specific issues. But to I think most coders, choice of language is actually pretty far down the list, especially if you ask them to ignore the ecosystem of packages/tooling & focus on the language itself. Trying to go beyond scoring points & telling a story about life being actually authentically really different on one path or another keeps being harder and harder to se, as we keep marching through the decades & seeing few really really strong distinct clear advantages anywhere, no one really excelling at their claimed bag, in an unreplicateable way that shows it really is the language, not just ecosystem. (rust being one genuine exception)