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A self inflicted restriction doesn't make a language bad.


It is not self inflicted, rather imposed by customers.

Also the Android operating system isn't a language.


Regardless, it doesn't reflect on the language/os/ecosystem/platform/system/library/runtime

If a company wants to vet all of their software, good on them! But that doesn't mean that anything that's not vetted by them is somehow worse for the majority of users, just that they haven't vetted it yet. So any arguments about how "library x" isn't usable by them won't apply to the vast majority of people, because most don't have that issue, or have no problems vetting that library as well.

Somewhat off topic. Is there a word that encompses the langauge, platform, runtime, etc...? I hate the word "ecosystem", but it seems like the best bet. And using any one of the others brings out comments of "well it's not a language" or "it's not a framework it's a library" or something else.




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