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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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And the developers themselves are incentivised internally and externally to choose *not the language*, but the *tasks* they would like to do in the process of development And to do a task best - one needs the most fitting tool 3/3
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Or precisely, not the *sets* of tasks, but the *categories* of tasks The roles For example, it just happens that currently frontend devs prefer the best language for frontend dev role - javascript 4/3
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