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Right. Open source languages become popular not by describing and fixing security holes promptly, but by having their super-users analyze patch notes for vulnerabilities, and code around them. The sure fire path to widely used, production ready releases.

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All languages and their libraries have vulnerabilities, many not yet discovered.

Instead of living in perpetual fear of being hacked, I'm out there doing what is more important to me: creating great web applications that users want to use, in a language I love using.

So then, in your opinion, IS there a difference between a language that is "production," ready, and one that is not? And if so, what is it?

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