[scruffyherder]

But then we wouldn't have single threaded wonders like node.js

It's part of our culture that the young kids dismantle the 'old people stuff' setup their new stuff to only re-invent the wheel again and again, run into the same problems that were solved decades ago to only be repeated again.

Remember how TCL was going to save us all from K&R C? Then it was perl to save us from TCL? Then Ruby? Python? javascript, Go or whatever is the flavour of the month?

[XorNot]

Sure except you've managed to bitch about most major programming languages here without proposing any alternatives.

[salawat]

The poster's entire point was that all of them came from a desire to find another option when a reasonable alternative already existed.

[setpatchaddress]

The logical conclusion is that Ruby shouldn’t exist because shakes fist those darn kids should write all programs in C instead.