alt Hacker NewsThat's totally fine. I don't get why people moralize this stuff. Both of these languages are rounding errors compared to the dynamic languages.
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pas • today at 11:27 AM
Because it triggers the "feeling of other" when someone is so close yet so far ideologically.
I'm sure you know this joke about dogmas :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624442
In some sense this is the same as the NIMBY/YIMBY question. There are perfectly valid reasons to want to live like Spacers do on Aurora, yet many prefer the caves.
I think people do this for every language. It becomes a part of their identity, and then they have to defend it. I used to do that too, long ago, but I don't have the time or energy for it for the most part, and find it boring, so that $LANG-user-as-identity bit of my has fallen by the wayside.
I don't think it's about adoption levels; sure Go and Rust are tiny compared to JS/python/etc. It's emotional, not about who has the most users or who can even plausibly get there.