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The amount of compiler and language theory needed to design a language that is also practical to use and implement is far greater than what a UI designer needs
by NOGDP 7y ago
The amount of compiler and language theory needed to design a language that is also practical to use and implement is far greater than what a UI designer needs to know about web technology. If there was a language designer that wasn't also very knowledgeable about the implementation and use side of things, they would probably be pretty useless outside of syntactic sugar type stuff.
- afiori 7y agoOn the other hand experts in their own field have a better chance at having a complete idea if what is needed. For example, from a theoretical computer science perspective of programming languages handling backwards incompatible change is not a hot topic. Or also compiling ergonomics (as a slight counterexample to my own point, stack, the build system for Haskell has a shebang mode where you can take a Haskell source file and transform it into an executable by prefixing some magic comments)