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That’s what’s so awesome about it. All the elitist notions of what a programming language or database cannot be or has to be, about speed, best practices, stand
by Robotbeat 6y ago
That’s what’s so awesome about it. All the elitist notions of what a programming language or database cannot be or has to be, about speed, best practices, standards, safety, harmful functions like GOTO, etc, fall to the wayside with a pragmatic interface that gets rid of all the required cruft and toolchains, just giving all the users direct access to power. And practically everyone in a desk job uses it occasionally. It’s as ubiquitous as coffee.
It’s a refreshing rebuke to modern convoluted toolchains, binary signing, prohibitions against doing this or that, all the ceremony of modern programming. It goes directly against the trend to make computers increasingly locked down in functionality, mere appliances for passive consumption by and harvesting of data from the masses. It’s like giving everyone in a desk job a Leatherman multitool and a lighter. A bicycle for the mind in actual truth. Permissionless innovation at its finest. Excel! Excelsior!