I've read the criticism of that post ( http://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/ , discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777735 ) but not the original, and now that I did, I have that strange feeling of not knowing whether it was satire or not --- and am unfortunately leaning towards the latter.

I made another comment here on this item, that it feels like a lot of the recent developments in programming languages are more along the lines of showing off how much complexity you can add, rather than solving the real problem itself. It's a "do less with more" mindset, the complete opposite of what I believe in.

I think this fits the definition of esoteric more than anything that was submitted.