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by swat535 2093 days ago
You know I've long stopped caring about how popular a language is in the community.

As I get older the question I ask myself is do I honestly enjoy using it? If the answer is yes, then I put it in my programming toolbox and ignore the hype.

2 comments

Love the attitude, but sometimes it is not beneficial to stick to a programming language that you simply like if you need to make a living out of it. If a programming language is decreasing in popularity it becomes harder to get work. If a programming language is not popular but it has a niche and one is in that niche then it's all good.
That's fine for personal use but professionally the main criterion is how widely the tool is used to solve business problems for paying customers.