Well, the same thing is true for other languages too. Some languages used to be popular to mention, because they were new and shiny (like Ruby, was a period of time when "X written in Ruby" was popular on HN), and others are seemingly always worth mentioning, like Common Lisp or Clojure.

Bunch of language nerds on here (both world and programming languages), so kind of makes sense to share a bit about the language.