[joelfolksy]

What stands out is how apologetic you are for pointing out that a language might be worse (gasp!) than another language. When did this "all languages are roughly equal, and if you say anything else you're a zealot" ideology get so widely entrenched in our industry?

[DubiousPusher]

As someone who came up as a C++ game dev I just ran into tons of people that acted like people using managed languages were automatically inferior programmers. Even imbibed of this belief a bit myself.

This was a view purely sourced from ignorance. There were people creating awesome things with Java and Python at the time that I and my contemporaryies could probably never coded up.

It was quite embarrassing when I came to realize the combo of ignorance and arrogance I was working from. So now I tend to bias toward assuming most languages people are working with are useful and warrant some amount of respect. I try to only criticize languages I'm extremely familiar with and have had the opportunity to see bad patterns repeatedly emerge from in a variety of code bases.

Basically, I think we can call some languages "bad" or "good" it just takes a lot of evidence and I'd rather avoid ranking them altogether.