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by qiskit 1512 days ago
The smart thing to do is to bet against the herd on HN. Otherwise, facebook would've ceased to exist, everybody would be using ruby and crypto would be worth $0. Bookies love to bet against the herd for a reason.

> I see a lot of criticism/hate of C++ lately

Should tell you something. It's not like agenda driven PR campaigns are new to social media. Whenever I see a wave of criticism or praise on social media, I think to myself, what would paul graham do?

If your job is Python/Golang/C why do you want to learn C++ or Rust? Learn neither. Why not learn a functional language or SQL instead? Or delve deeper into python or go or c.