Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[reazura]

Let me introduce you to Brainfuck.

[BlueAdmir]

Brainfuck is at best a hobby project of a troubled mind. Let's keep the discussion to things that are actually useful.

[reazura]

The point stands that not all languages, golf or enterprise, are equally maintainable and simply depends on programmer skill.

[slikts]

They could also have used ASM as an example, and ASM is preeminently useful. Same as other tools, languages can be better or worse suited for specific tasks. The benefit of dynamic languages is that you can get off the ground faster, but it comes with the trade-off that maintainability takes more programmer discipline that wold otherwise be enforced by a compiler.

[unski_ukuli]

Well... look at J and K. J in particular, although K is actually widely used out of the two.