[ceronman]

I was talking about a monoculture specifically in the systems programming area. Java, Perl, PhP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Go, these got popular but they use garbage collection and have limitations for systems programming. C and C++ were the only options for a long while.

[bryanlarsen]

Systems programming is just a niche. A large niche, but just a niche. But between when Pascal & Assembly stopped being used widely and before Java started being used widely C & C++ were used for pretty much everything.