A cyclical fad. A few years ago, it was golang. No one around here seems to care much about golang now, but back in the day, God help anyone who said anything

A cyclical fad. A few years ago, it was golang. No one around here seems to care much about golang now, but back in the day, God help anyone who said anything negative about Go on HN. It's too late for anything to replace C/C++ now. Programming is a robot's job, and the robot DGAF. One Turing-complete language is as good as another, all the better if there are a few trillion tokens' worth of it in-distribution.