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The problem is that the several people he knows are not the average architecture astronaut. It takes a lot of taste and experience to design a usable language.
by discreteevent 9y ago
The problem is that the several people he knows are not the average architecture astronaut. It takes a lot of taste and experience to design a usable language.
- humanrebar 9y agoAnd it takes a lot of organizational dedication and work to support the language properly: training, documentation, packaging, regression testing (1), editor support, debugger support, libraries, and the list goes on. I doubt a single individual could do all that for more than a short while, so you need an organization that wants to do all that right for the sake of the language. Most companies won't really care that your language isn't in fedora upstream. (1) Lots of popular languages get the community to do their regression testing for them, but if you are the sole user of your language, you need to do all the testing yourself somehow.