[PaulDavisThe1st]

Partly because some of its advocates say things like:

> it's a vastly better language than C

when they could just say "it has some important features that C does not have and likely will never have".

[kouteiheika]

I don't follow. So you think it cannot be possibly a vastly better language than C, and the only reason people are saying that is because of the hype?

[dmitrygr]

"Better" implies an unambiguous "goodness" metric, which does not exist. People who still use such language are thus implying that their opinion and their definition of "good" is the only correct one.