OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 16:39:14 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I wouldn't call Swift specialized, maybe only because it only 
> runs on OS X, iOS and linux right now.  So Linus would predict 
> that Go and Rust may do well now because they're specialized, 
> but will be hit hard if their niche collapses and they don't 
> become more general-purpose before then (which I don't think 
> they can do).  You seem to think that's not a real concern, 
> that the growth from specialization is worth it.  Let's see 
> who's right. :)

I don't think there is any such thing as general purpose 
programming languages. They all get sucked into a niche.