Does anyone else find interesting that people who write blog posts saying "my favourite language is X", it's never a mainstream language..?
Successful language designers select for what's popular, not what's good.
C++ intersected the mass of C programmers with the new OO fad, and kept all of C's warts. Had Stroustrup made C++ better, he wouldn't have an army of adopters who already knew C. Maybe merit will win out in the long run [1]? I'm not hopeful.
Java needed to be close enough to C++, and C# to Java. And Brendan Eich joined Netscape to "put Scheme in the browser".
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c_creator_calls_for_a...
My favorite language is Python, but I wouldn't write a blog post about it because no one would care.
My favourite language is also python, and I would love to read your blog post on why your favourite language is python :-)
> people who write blog posts ... never a mainstream language
Don't you find it amusing that food critics usually write about little-known or new restaurants and never do any fast-food chain reviewing?
New mainstream languages are rarer than new better (in some way that can be favorable) languages.