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I'm all for scratching an itch and coming up with a new language. And yes there is potential in this space. But it's definitely a wasted effort if the goal is

I'm all for scratching an itch and coming up with a new language. And yes there is potential in this space. But it's definitely a wasted effort if the goal is to write a light weight chat client... Implementing something, disliking the tools we use and deciding to implement our own... I think we've all been there. But a language takes years of work by dedicated people to reach any level of maturity.

klodolph 8y ago
> But it's definitely a wasted effort if the goal is to write a light weight chat client... That’s vacuously true, because there are always more goals besides just writing a light-weight chat client. I find most of what I do is balance different goals, objectives, and concerns against each other. Even if you only have external business objectives, you at least consider both the short-term and long-term.