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by dvfjsdhgfv 2743 days ago
On the other hand, many people conflate the popularity of a programming language with it being backed by a big corporation.

There actually are a few measurable metrics of programming languages, but even when we discuss such a simple factor as execution speed that you'd expect to be universally accepted as positive, there will be people arguing that developer time is more expensive and savings made here are more important than the gains on execution speed. There is simply no way two programmers are going to agree in classifying a number of languages as good or bad.

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> There is simply no way two programmers are going to agree in classifying a number of languages as good or bad.

If there is one thing humans love doing is finding small reasons to disagree hah.