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They are 'allowing' people into a private beta of a programming language? Coupled with the fact it is not open source and has a bunch of fad ad-tech videos on t
by jamesb93 7y ago
They are 'allowing' people into a private beta of a programming language? Coupled with the fact it is not open source and has a bunch of fad ad-tech videos on the front page this is so many red flags.
- quickthrower2 7y agoIt's pretty smart from a marketing point of view. It gets everyone on HN riled up and so lots of comments and upvotes whenever they post.
- turtlebits 7y agoAgreed, the quality of their web site tells a lot, especially when their product is for developers - Trendy font that reminds me of Comic sans - 1 MB of images and JS - Mission statement and values read as generic lifestyle brand copy. - A 1.4 mb PNG header image on their beta sign up page - Tiny unreadable video (with huge black borders) or full screen only.
- type0 7y agoIt's a perfect language to implement dark patterns, in fact they could trademark that term /s
- erandros 7y agoI agree, but how did it get so many upvotes? there's a huge disconnect between most top level commenters not liking it and the aprox. 350 karma. I'm a new user so this is very confusing to me.
- karmakaze 7y agoHN has a much broader population than individual comment threads might indicate.