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TimorousBestieyesterday at 2:54 PM1 replyview on HN

> Or better yet, don't let 'social pressure' influence your choice of programming language ;)

It’s hard. Programming is a social discipline, and the more people who work in a language, the more love it gets.


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spauldoyesterday at 4:29 PM

If you're on UNIX or working in the embedded space, C is still everywhere and gets lots of love. C tends to get lots of libraries anyway because everything can FFI to it.