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Why would "everyone can understand this" be a valuable property for a specialist tool? I would much rather use tools that enable skilled professionals to do the

• yakubin 5y ago
  It is useful educationally. People aren't born experts. It's also a breath of fresh air in an industry whose practitioners can't distinguish technology from magic.
  • sophacles 5y ago
    >It's also a breath of fresh air in an industry whose practitioners can't distinguish technology from magic. And sadly often don't want to. My biggest pet peeve is helping someone figure out a bug, and when I see the problem and start explaining what's happening they give me some sort of "I don't want to know about all that, just tell me how to fix it!" response. If you want to spend my time to learn something so you can contribute to the project better - cool I'm in as along as it takes. If you just want to use my knowledge and time so you can work less - fuck off, I have my own deadlines for my own work.
• scruffyherder 5y ago
  To me the odd question is why in a language with almost no popular use.. why JavaScript, fortran, basic or c? How does this handle endian, word sizes, and dreaded alignment? Is packing enough?
• coldtea 5y ago
  >Why would "everyone can understand this" be a valuable property for a specialist tool? I would much rather use tools that enable skilled professionals to do their best work than try to appease the layman. First, who said "everyone" here refers to the "layman"?