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Who cares? Languages get hyped because people are newly finding them as great solutions to a problem they have.

There's no "perl hype" because (virtually) nobody is just discovering it as something new and useful.

As python came to have a robust web ecosystem, it started to get a lot of hype as it was getting a ton of converts from perl/php/etc.

Now as web tasks are changing, Go's niche is becoming larger, and people are excited to use it where Python was failing them.

This will continue forever, most likely.



I am not the one judging the hype, FYI.




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