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Re:Leaving OCaml by nendroid on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:00PM (#24975909)
>learnability

I feel this is the single most important causative factor for language popularity.

Javascript may have much more bad parts to the language than say Haskell but it's far easier for a programmer to learn all the bad parts of javascript and avoid those bad parts then for him to learn all the good parts of haskell and use those good parts.

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