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Maybe because this guy is passionate about making a new systems language, instead of solving the problem you want solved? I never understand people who complai
by bendotc 16y ago
Maybe because this guy is passionate about making a new systems language, instead of solving the problem you want solved?
I never understand people who complain that free project X exists, when those people could be working on Y which is obviously more important. As if production and enthusiasm were both zero-sum and fungible.
Also, as someone who works with systems languages every day, I can tell you that there's a need for this work. I'm not saying Rust is it, but the systems language space is pretty dead, which is scary in a world where processors are threatening to become parallel on scales we don't know how to deal with with traditional tools.
- kenjackson 16y agoLets be clear, the author of the blog post asked an explicit question. If the question was, "Can I do whatever I want, and screw what you think?", I'd answer, "Of course you can". But if you ask me "Do you agree?", well do you want my answer, or do you want me to simply say, "If that's where your passion is". My honest answer, no I don't agree. I don't think we need a systems language of this sort. And I think there's a bigger gap that I'd like to see Mozilla work on, although maybe this blog post author isn't the right person to work on it.