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Programming languages aren’t a zero sum game
- flavio81 9y agoTL;DR: "I like Kotlin, it makes me happy, i know there are better languages out there , but I don't give a sh..." No, seriouslty. That's what the whole article is about.
- zephyz 9y agoToo bad this as just a rant. There are some interesting statements to make about programming language features that come from this title. For example one can contrast languages that choose to have total type inference at the price of some other features. Typically Idris or Scala do not have complete type inference. But they have other features instead (dependent types/subtyping) Those trade offs make it feel like programming language features are a zero sum game where every feature you choose to have in you language will limit another aspect of it.