[innocentoldguy]

Furthermore, there are plenty of less-than-stellar languages out there that are popular for a time, so companies flock to them, build applications and services in them, and are then forced to maintain that code for years and years to come; which is one of the points of this article.

You are the only one who inferred Javascript's unique circumstances and then extrapolated an irrelevant argument with me based on your own misunderstandings.

[thegeekpirate]

If that's the case, care to name off some instances of a language becoming wildly popular for businesses and then just as quickly dying off outside of the JavaScript ecosystem in the last decade?

You seem to be missing the forest for the trees here. You said:

> I don't think a language's popularity has anything to do with it being a good, well-thought-out language.

Then used JavaScript as an example of this:

> Just look at Javascript.

I have sufficiently explained why your correlation does not equal causation, as JavaScript is the only language I'm aware of to have gone through being popular while at the same time being a poorly-built language in the past decade, and hence, being a poor analogy as an attempt to prove your point.

If you'd care to at the very least show some other examples, I'd be overjoyed to see them.

For the record, I completely agree with your point—I also don't believe popularity is directly correlated by the design of the language—but I don't have a single shred of evidence to back it up, only examples from outside of the programming ecosystem. That's why I'm inquiring.