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by cb321 352 days ago
Besides already agreeing to disagree on the Java slogan & syntax, I agree with all you say. Familiarity/being taught in schools is for sure a huge deal. { Not really "news" - Steve Jobs used to give high schools Apple IIs for the same reason. :-) } When even Scheme-inventing MIT moved to Python the writing was on the wall.

I've always been a little surprised Nim wasn't more popular with its Python like syntax, Lisp like meta-power, C-like speed and usually automatic memory management. Ah well.