C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

Tue Jul 24 07:19:21 UTC 2018

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 00:41:54 UTC, RhyS wrote:

> I am sorry to say but to succeed as a language beyond being a 
> small or hobby language it takes: Being established already or 
> having a big name to hype behind your "product". Anything 
> beyond that will have topic derail and frankly, its more 
> negative then positive.

If I'm not wrong, Python has grown up really slowly and quietly, 
till the recent big success in the scientific field.

I remember also when Ruby was released, and what a killer 
application like Ruby on Rails has done for its success.

/Paolo