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Re:Borgo Programming Language by foooorsyth on Friday November 29, 2024 @11:02AM (#42274729)
Top 50 is incredibly generous. I wouldn’t use anything outside of the top ~20 for anything I’d be getting paid to produce.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

The most important factor for a language is Big Tech backing. Little squabbles on syntax or language features or philosophies are entirely secondary.

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Re:Borgo Programming Language by alfiedotwtf on Saturday November 30, 2024 @02:07AM (#42280095)
I would say:

    Community > Company
In fact, after what Sun/Oracle did to Java, people should be skeptical if a language was not community run
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