on the python paradox

[David Lowry-Duda]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 10:37:39PM -0300, Sabrina Almodóvar wrote:
>                          The Python Paradox
>                             Paul Graham
>                             August 2004
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Hence what, for lack of a better name, I'll call the Python paradox: 
> if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric 
> language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll 
> attract only those who cared enough to learn it. And for programmers 
> the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you 
> want to get a good job, is a language that people don't learn merely 
> to get a job.
>
> [SNIP]

I wonder what the appropriately esoteric language is today?

We can sort of think of go/rust as esoteric versions of C/C++. But what 
would be the esoteric python?

Perhaps Julia? I don't know of any large software projects happening in 
julia world that aren't essentially scientific computing libraries (but 
this is because *I* work mostly with scientific computing libraries and 
sometimes live under a rock).

- DLD