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> The guy isn't designing a new language or trying to improve upon an existing language. He's just airing his opinion. So how do you think new language develop

• laumars 9y ago
  > So how do you think new language development starts? By people writing code rather than pontificating > Why do we have languages like Rust, D, Nim, and Crystal? Because people wrote them rather than wasted hours on end arging why other popular solutions are garbage. As I said in my previous post: "For what it's worth, when I haven't liked a particular language which I've depended on, I've written my own parsers to add features. I'm not suggesting everyone should do this but it's a great deal more useful than starting flamewars." Or to put things another way, you don't see the developer of Nim endlessly slagging off other languages. He just quietly gets on and creates something awesome.
  • wuliwong 9y ago
    >By people writing code rather than pontificating Or maybe a both things are important?
    • laumars 9y ago
      Sure, if the author has something new to add to the debate. However there becomes a point where the internet is already over saturated with opinion pieces and thus any newer ones only serve as flamebait by endlessly reiterating the same arguments. Submissions like this one happen weekly - and that's just one programming language. In fact this isn't even the first article on Go written by this author alone. So while I'm in favour discussion whether this article adds enough to the debate to be considered important. I'm inclined to say "no" since the author literally just rehashes the same points every other argument against Go has done already.