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What is the definition of a toy language? That’s a new term for me. I (thankfully) haven’t written C++ in over 20 years, but if I had to drop back down to a l

• kyleishie 6y ago
  > What is the definition of a toy language? That’s a new term for me. I would imagine most non-compiled, scripting languages. They are ok when building the business logic of an application on top of faster building blocks but not ok for application building blocks such as a database.
• StavrosK 6y ago
  > What is the definition of a toy language? A language that doesn't require as much hair-pulling to learn, so you can't feel as smug for knowing it.
  • argvargc 6y ago
    So... not Javascript then?
• bamfloesche 6y ago
  Systems developer here. I made an account to answer this, because the OP is 100% right about this. A toy language is one which you do not allow to escape the play-room/sandbox, you play with it (because hey, you can, so why not..), but you would not actually use it. The reason this is important for decentralization efforts, is that the OS should be doing this. Sure, paint the pretty UI, but expose the entire thing to common OS-level abstractions, please, and then host the scripts, kthxbai .. (A non-toy language is one you are very comfortable shipping. Javascript is that for a lot of people. Not for systems programmers = it is an application execution environment, not a place for things which must operate, as part of the system, without much user hassle ..)