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There are more factors than 'what can be built' with a language. A more popular language will have more projects written in it, and popularity is not necessaril

There are more factors than 'what can be built' with a language. A more popular language will have more projects written in it, and popularity is not necessarily based on merit (think about the promotion Java received because of commercial reasons).

dkarapetyan 12y ago
Java is a perfectly adequate language. I'm not saying network effects don't matter. I'm saying the focus should be on building things instead of some other metric like language purity.
- kyllo 12y ago
  Java is an acceptable programming language, but far from perfectly adequate. Its inadequacies are very well documented.
  - Toenex 12y ago
    > Its inadequacies are very well documented. Which is a very useful trait for a tool to have.