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Until all programming languages coalesce into one super language (ECMAScript 20 in the year 2050), programmers will bash languages and programmers will praise languages.

Until that fateful day we must all accept criticism of our favourite language even though we are so smart and know it's the best language.

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Even then they will war on, because the task of converting all libraries to another language is such an immense undertaking. Really we need an AI to do the transpiling job, then assign performance and maintainability scores, so we can objectively argue the clear winners.

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