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We've reached a point where package ecosystem eclipses the importance of language features (which, in brand new languages, typically only offer incremental impr
by crdoconnor 7y ago
We've reached a point where package ecosystem eclipses the importance of language features (which, in brand new languages, typically only offer incremental improvements these days).
It's not good enough to build a slightly better language any more. People won't learn a new language without their favourite packages (or equivalents).
- jaggirs 7y agoA solution to this is leveraging the ecosystem of another language, like elixir (erlang) and all the jvm languages do.
- crdoconnor 7y agoThis has a habit of creating impedance mismatch problems though.
- goatlover 7y agoJulia does this by being able to call Python, R and Fortran libraries.