Amen to that. Now let me in peace declare my functions that will return functions that will return closures. These articles are silly and I don't see how this i

Amen to that. Now let me in peace declare my functions that will return functions that will return closures. These articles are silly and I don't see how this is even "hacker news" (oh wait, OP is the author, makes sense)... I don't use Lua, I have/see/envision no interest for Haskell other than as a toy, the latest Java 0-day exploit is only 15 days away[1], PHP still looks like a mess to me and I abhor C++ (and Rails too, but it's another matter). Yet I wouldn't ever call one of these languages "doomed" because I know that my personal vision isn't the vision of our industry and that even for something as strange as brainfuck, there'll be an engineer who will find uses for it[2]. What I find even more about this article is that we are a community where so many of "us" are already suffering from depression, Impostor Syndrome[3] and many other "bad emotions" and someone is still out there preaching negativity, telling us how people who "put all [their] eggs in javascript" aren't "smart". What's the point? Didn't we learn from our own DongleGate and similar events that this attitude was in no way the winning attitude that our more talented peers exhibited to elevate themselves? If you don't want to be the next PG, Zuckerberg or any 10X engineer, go ahead! But don't try to drag anyone with you down a hole of your own making. [1] http://java-0day.com/ http://java-0day.com/ [2] http://modbf.sourceforge.net/ http://modbf.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5664839