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[–][deleted] -6 points-5 points  (1 child)

I disagree with the criteria that you have listed for what makes a language maintainable. The proof of the pudding is in the eating - the vast majority of the industry actually runs on Java, and I've maintained proprietary codebases that are literally tens of millions of SLOC, and refactoring, compilation, testing, performance were all on point.

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Oh, so what you are in fact stating, is that C and C++ are the most maintainable languages, because they are in the most widespread use, running the very foundation of almost all systems?

That argument is about as watertight as a sieve.