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Why? I haven't used it to verify, but my understanding is that similarly to JavaScript, it has evolved into a fully featured and ergonomic language. Is that incorrect?
that alone should clue you in on how shitty and hated it is. I haven't done much with it, but it was the language to hate before JS started to really proliferate.
So you don't have a real reason. Cool cool cool
Of course they don't. Anyone actually accountable, I believe, have their own researches on the subjects done, and instantly notices trolling.
We may wait now for copy-pasted or LLM-generated pros/cons, too, for a sudden "proof" no one asked for.
It's much, much worse than JS. The language is abysmal and the standard library is the worst I've ever seen across any language. I'd even prefer not to have one at all if I had to choose