Who cares about the "technical merit" (which is a completely arbitrary measure) of a language? There IS no "objectively better" language. Not everything is on a scale ranging from 0 to LISP.There are different tools for different jobs, each has performance characteristics along different dimensions.
There is only one question that matters to developers: Is this productive?
By that measure, the language itself is a small part of the equation which includes tooling, libraries, community, documentation, etc etc etc. This is completely normal and not depressing. It's sane.
There is only one question that matters to developers: Is this productive?
By that measure, the language itself is a small part of the equation which includes tooling, libraries, community, documentation, etc etc etc. This is completely normal and not depressing. It's sane.