Are We Chasing Language Hype over Solving Real Problems?
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·September 20, 2025noahlt
Yes, this is why language hype has largely died down among all but the truly myopic.
privatelypublic
And the inexperienced. I got hyped over golang a while back because of go routines. Then I discovered any remotely recent .net version already had what I needed. (I'm a c# dev by default)
Python makes me want to pull my hair out though. Full blown virtual machines make running it tolerable, but the language's inconsistencies... though, I keep trying because I'm hoping theres patterns I don't see.
leakycap
Yes, but this is a core part of the economy. As soon as we "solve" something, it becomes commodity in a matter of years and the bottom falls out of our current employment/revenue models.
Improving legacy software is boring; consequently, less people are willing to do it, and those people tend to work slower. Rewriting a legacy program in a new language may take more work, but because it's more interesting, more people who work faster will do it, such that it takes less time overall.