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The arguments for the Obscure Thing downplay the downsides (“yeah I had to take a six-month detour to implement an HTTP server for Fortran 2023”) and invent not-even-wrong upsides. I once read someone argue Common Lisp is great because it has garbage collection, like the writer has some obscure form of agnosia where their brain doesn’t register the existence of Python. The arguments against the Popular Thing are vague (“Docker is too complex”) or rely on social shaming (“the community is toxic”) or claims about identity (“Rust makes you soft and weak, C++ keeps you on your toes”).
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