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Yep. And the sources are too often self-reinforcing and self-referential.

Use the "right"/better tool from the toolbox, the tool you know best, and/or the tool that the customer wants and/or makes the most money. This might include Ada[0] or COBOL[1]. Or FORTH[2] or Lua[3]. Popularity isn't a measure of much of anything apart from SEO.

0. https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

1. https://theirstack.com/en/technology/cobol

2. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/360271.360272

3. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes/#boot-loader



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