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Counterpoint: I think the Common Lisp page does a good job giving good examples of interesting features, leaving me curious for more. The web benchmark is intri
by AceJohnny2 9y ago
Counterpoint: I think the Common Lisp page does a good job giving good examples of interesting features, leaving me curious for more. The web benchmark is intriguing [1], and i'm really happy they gave an example of a good IDE, which so many language presentations completely overlook. The tooling is what I, as a developer, will interact with daily! I don't care if you language can do fizzwabble if I can't make heads or tails of it!
The Rust page, on the other hand, only effectively demonstrates one feature, which i don't care about. Unicode strings? Woo. Those belong in separate i18n file. It does so in a box that doesn't even properly display the whole snippet without scrolling. It is cool that I'm able to run it, though of course a newbie like me wouldn't know what to do. Its list of features should be links to examples. As is, the bullet points could have been extracted from a powerpoint presentation and are just as mind-numbing.
[1] though I want a link to more information, for example which servers they chose for Ruby and Node. Were those best-in-class for their language? I'm very suspicious of benchmarks given with little context.
- nerpderp83 8y agoI should have been clear, I am only critiquing the presentation, not the content. The content is stellar.