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Is there anyone that doesn’t immediately scroll past the elevator pitch to the code examples when looking at a new language?
by jimbob45 6y ago
Is there anyone that doesn’t immediately scroll past the elevator pitch to the code examples when looking at a new language?
- mastrsushi 6y agoAbsolutely, No one here thinks you're Steve Jobs. Just show me your little toy pet project example code to convince me it's slightly less useless than the 10 other ones that get posted here everyday.
- throwaway4747l 6y agoThere's no need to be this harsh. We should always celebrate people making things even if they don't benefit us directly, to me that's even the essence of hacking
- Volt 6y agoSure, making is good and all, but if you want people to care you should put in effort to make them care. Toy programming languages is a very crowded space.
- throwaway4747l 6y agoSorry, how is it a 'crowded space'? Languages aren't startups, they don't have to compete on a market to be viable (unless they're proprietary of course). As long as someone somewhere has an interest in it, it will live on.
- mastrsushi 6y agoA language needs an active community of many users. In these days, without support for libraries that make software exciting and useful a language can definitely die as a platform. Those are some of the many qualities that persuade users to invest time into learning a new language. Otherwise, they'll go with something already established. So I disagree, there is definitely competition amongst programming languages.
- throwaway4747l 6y agoThat is not dead which may eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die. Remember that weird language that looked like Java and was used by nobody except script kiddies until the Web exploded? Or that quirky little language with forced indentation that was overshadowed by Perl and Matlab well into the 90s and the 00s? Open source projects don't have the same constraints as commercial ones, they can remain dormant or unnoticed for years before suddenly taking off.
- zadkey 6y agoThis was a thing. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msdn10/bb188593(v=msdn.10) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msdn10/bb...
- dang 6y agoBe kind. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines at a high rate with your recent comments. Could please review them and take the spirit of this site more to heart? We're trying to have a community here that doesn't degenerate to internet default (or worse), and that takes a collective effort.
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- mastrsushi 6y agoNope, I have every right to express my beliefs with any bit of snarkiness I add. >Could please review them and take the spirit of this site more to heart? I'm impressed you managed to type that without spilling your kombucha.
- zadkey 6y agoYep, that was the first thing I did. For me, "Yeah it sounds cool, but let's see some code" is my usual response to new programming languages.