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I always wonder if "we" spend too much time on new languages and not enough on good libraries in existing popular languages.
by hackerbrother 6y ago
I always wonder if "we" spend too much time on new languages and not enough on good libraries in existing popular languages.
- setr 6y agoThey’re really not that different — a language is essentially a library, but at a lower level of the stack (the hierarchy being OS > language > framework > library > application) From that perspective, it makes about as much sense designing a framework versus a language, relative to a library. The question then to justify a new language is to justify whether it could have been done with about as much benefit, but on a higher tier (thus, lower effort, for both the developer and the user)