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Ok, I'll bite: Can someone ELI5 what this is about, why it's interesting, and why someone would want to learn or use this language? (I'm coming from the persp
by nlh 6y ago
Ok, I'll bite:
Can someone ELI5 what this is about, why it's interesting, and why someone would want to learn or use this language?
(I'm coming from the perspective of someone who builds user-facing web & mobile applications in Ruby, Crystal, Python, JavaScript, Swift, etc.)
BTW - I'm asking not because I doubt there are good answers to any of those questions - but because I truly don't understand and wish to.
I read the opening paragraph and without spending an hour looking up the definition of each term, I'm more confused than when I started :)
Thank you in advance!
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI've no experience with this language or it's genre of languages, but I doubt there is a good answer for you. You're working in a very different space (business oriented, needs networking protocols, probably no major number crunching, your collection of languages do fine for your job etc.) Some languages are just explorations of the language space, disjoint from your language-using space therefore irrelevant to you directly, and may be (currently) only of academic interest. I'd learn this if I had time, to understand different paradigms, and for fun. Sometimes this is useful. Sometimes not.
- nlh 6y agoThank you! That’s helpful. I had a hunch this was focused on theory / academia, and if that’s the case, that makes more sense.