Does anyone else find interesting that people who write blog posts saying "my favourite language is X", it's never a mainstream language..?
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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...