About 20 years ago your choice of language basically boiled down to what you were going to pick for your web server. Your choices were
- Java (popular among people who went to college and learned all about OOP or places that had a lot of "enterprise" software development)
- Ruby on Rails (which was the hot new thing)
- Python or Perl to be the P in your LAMP stack
- C++ for "performance"
All of these were kitchen sink choices because they wound up needing to do everything. If you went back in time and said you were building a language that didn't do something incredibly common and got in the way of your work, no one would pick it up.
Not everybody is writing web applications. In fact, all of the languages have been invented years or even decades before the internet became popular. Except maybe for Perl, they have been designed as general purpose programming languages.
Wow. By your other comments I know you "know things". But this...this you do not know.
Rails was "hot" 20 years ago? lol, and you have completely missed IIS, .Net, and (dun dun duuuuuuuuunnnnn!!!!!) PHP. I bet you don't even know what ASP was.
Also...wth with C++ or python on a web server...20 years ago? Ok maybe this is entertaining now. Since you know so much, tell me about the framework libs needed for C++ web apps 20 years ago. eats popcorn <- that...is from BBS, maybe look that up too.
Are you an LLM bot or real person?
You're not just kind of wrong here; you're not just a little wrong; you're "having a bad day" level of wrong.
Take the afternoon off, and drink a Jamba Juice. Maybe call some family and tell them you love them.
- Java (popular among people who went to college and learned all about OOP or places that had a lot of "enterprise" software development)
- Ruby on Rails (which was the hot new thing)
- Python or Perl to be the P in your LAMP stack
- C++ for "performance"
All of these were kitchen sink choices because they wound up needing to do everything. If you went back in time and said you were building a language that didn't do something incredibly common and got in the way of your work, no one would pick it up.