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Zababa on Sept 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syn...

That is not how logic works. "Better languages with less marketing are less popular than Java" means that "marketing matters" and that "quality isn't everything", not that "only marketing matters".

enjoy-your-stay on Sept 18, 2022 [–]

And step 1 in marketing a new language is a cute mascot, obviously.

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