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🤔 what are the consequences of a language being “loved” does it attract a different kind of developer? Inspire different kinds of projects? And same question for unloved languages… (PHP?)
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Rust has an est 600k developers & recently won the most loved programming language on Stack Overflow for the 6th yr in a row. In a world of talent scarcity, one of the most brilliant moves of Solana was to build on top of the most beloved language with an established community.
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loved: actively fun to write unloved: actively annoying to write if developers are writing in an annoying language at their current job, you can tempt them to come work for you by using a more fun-to-write language basically a perk
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i think it really is a nebulous subjective thing that's hard to pin down into just one or two concrete things. like Python and Rust are both fun, but for very different reasons. (Python partly because it's easy to do right things, and Rust partly bc it's hard to do wrong things)
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