Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 18:42:06 UTC, bauss wrote:

> Go is garbage and it's only popular because Google is behind it.
>
> It has absolutely nothing to do with the language itself.

I don't know if I'd agree that it's garbage - it has a lot of 
appeal to certain types of programmers, though not to me - but I 
do agree that it's popular (to whatever extent it is) because of 
Google. I remember when the language was first announced, there 
were a lot of people excited by the prospect that GOOGLE IS 
CREATING A LANGUAGE. IT HAS TO BE AWESOME. These were not people 
who tried the language and found it to be better than the 
alternatives. They were people who hadn't even seen it. That was 
back in the days when Microsoft was the devil and Google were the 
good guys.

Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to 
keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done 
when they used it.