The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

[Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 19:26:25 +0000, Meta wrote:

> On Monday, 8 August 2016 at 17:16:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I have never understood how popularity has anything to do with quality.
> 
> It isn't; see: Javascript, Go. The only thing we have to understand is
> that how popular people perceive a language to be affects whether or not
> they will use it.

My impression of Go is that it has good production quality. It's got 
pretty good tooling for its age, and you're unlikely to encounter an 
internal compiler error.

Popularity *tends* to bring that sort of quality with it -- a language or 
framework that's widely used will likely be used by a company that can 
afford to put significant resources behind it. Popularity draws more eyes 
to expose problems and volunteers to fix bugs.

In D land, a lot of us did without for a fair few years. But these days, 
things are getting a lot better.