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> there is not much to do aside from polishing

If only other languages could just have been designed perfectly first try like <insert your favourite irrelevant lisp dialect>...



Right, and popularity is the ultimate determinant of value.

Maybe you are simply ignorant of how many systems might actually run a lisp or similar "irrelevant" programming language in the systems you interact with. From airline reservation systems to banking and high-frequency trading.

JavaScript is not, in fact, eating the world, and nor will Python, Rust or whatever else.




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