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Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by chillee on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:03AM (#16430389)
That's what happens when you have a new hip language/framework that has a lot of hype.

You see the same with Rust, Elixir, VSCode, Elm, Purescript, ReasonML, etc.

It's not astroturfing, it's just a lot of beginners that are overly excited to proselytize their new discovery.

Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by pault on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:24AM (#16430587)
I don't think it's fair to claim these people are all beginners. More likely it's a phenomenon where mature languages have been around long enough that you already know their strong and weak points, but when you look at a language in development you only see its potential.
Re:Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014) by chillee on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:20PM (#16440525)
I mean, it's not just true for new languages. For Haskell, you see beginners claim that "it's a perfect language and can do no wrong", while experts in the language will acknowledge its faults, including: long compile times, the downsides of laziness, etc.