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		Smithalicious on June 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Language... I think that popularity is probably indicative of other qualities of a language, and at the very least, I think being popular is a good feature in itself (in terms of getting support, libraries, documentation etc)

pjmlp on June 22, 2019 [–]

Platforms are products that sell languages, not the other way around.

So being popular just means having the luck to be on a platform that is doing well.

Usually most programming languages fade way when that platform stops being relevant, as history has proven a couple of times.

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