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by yseuhxndnsj 3187 days ago
I think so too! But the operative question is not how well suited they are to the task. It's how often they're used for the task in the corpus. And on that point I suspect that the person you're replying to has the right of it. I suspect that reaching for concurrency is correlated with a desire for high performance, which in turn I suspect causes people also to reach for these lower level languages.