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Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) (leminal.space)
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I feel proponents of any programming language put a lot of spin around what isolated aspects it is good for, but fail to illustrate what a programmer in even one target domain gains from using it.

Are there programming language implementations unlike what is described above, that you feel back up their marketing?

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

What language features do users say helped them? Existence of libraries didn't make C a good language

Hm, except in the way that being able to call into library functions "relatively easily" from the base language was a good way for others to create a bajillion handy libraries.

And once you've got those available to extend your language in any direction you want, you're well on your way to ubiquitousness.