You are the victim of shills

Shills exist. It's a real thing.

They aren't paid. There is no possible financial gain from posting on /prog/.

But there are ideological shills that are working hard to win every-possible mind to their side.

Guess who does that?

Did you guess "the side that is over-represented on the internet and wins twelve allies every time they get a stack overflow upvote," the way that pajeets do?

You guessed wrong.

The only shills on /prog/ are the ones wringing every stone until they find one that gives a drop of blood.

/prog/ is being manipulated by C programmers and Unix hackers, because the anonymous format provides a unique opportunity for their ideas to be presented without cross-examination. Because their ideas can't withstand cross-examination.

You ever seen those posts on /prog/ about Lisp being useless in the real world? Did you know that those claims got debunked, twenty years ago? They were flat-out proved wrong, when most of you were in diapers. But you saw a statistic.

Shills are here. They won. You believe them.

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/prog/ is being manipulated by C programmers and Unix hackers

They have been astroturfing for a very long time, not only on /prog/ but all over the Internet. They're not only anti-Lisp, they're anti-everything that isn't Unix-like or C-like. It doesn't matter if it's free or proprietary, or written in C or some other language.

Shills are here. They won. You believe them.

Linux shilling has been going on since the 1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Trillian

Project Trillian was an effort by an industry consortium to port the Linux kernel to the Itanium processor. The project started in May 1999 with the goal of releasing the distribution in time for the initial release of Itanium, then scheduled for early 2000.[1] By the end of 1999, the project included Caldera Systems, CERN, Cygnus Solutions, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux and VA Linux Systems.

I bet you thought Linux was a grassroots ``freedom'' movement. Corporations have been shilling it for at least 18 years. All of these companies also improved the code of Linux.