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If it allows you to be productive and fits the way you think, why not use it? And what is your metric for "being better"?

• IshKebab 2y ago
  Languages don't really exist in isolation, especially general purpose languages. They depend on community for things like libraries, support, compiler & tooling development, etc. You can use a dead language if you want, but you're going to lose out on all of that. And you'd better not ever want anyone to help you with your projects...
  • anthk 2y ago
    AWK is Posix. Python is not. End of the story. POSIX awk will run everywhere, and GAWK has networking capabilities.
    • IshKebab 2y ago
      That's a very naive take. Posix is not the holy scripture. And have you heard of this OS called "Windows"? It's pretty popular.
      • anthk 2y ago
        In servers, IOT, embedded... Windows doesn't exist.