Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

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On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 11:42:24 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:58:05 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:14:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>>> On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away 
>>>> from that list.
>>>
>>> D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads 
>>> of language features and bells and whistles, but there is no 
>>> killer feature in the language itself.
>>
>> For me the killer feature is meta-programming. No other 
>> language comes close.
>
> It's a nice feature, but won't make any startup company choose 
> D or any other company as the language for their next software 
> product.

Well, the truth is, people don't come to a language because of a 
killer feature. Sometimes it's even the opposite. Java and Dart 
are familiar to some extent because of lack of killer features. 
But what they might lack in "expressiveness", they make up for 
with amazing ecosystem and IDE support (which is usually 
inversely proportional to language expressiveness). I can't think 
of any language that is popular just because of language 
features. Python? Not really, it has a great standard library, a 
broad ecosystem of libraries for networking, science etc. Rust? 
Not really. While their memory management features are cool, many 
people flock to Rust because of its rapidly growing ecosystem and 
a good strategy/project scope management.