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That’s right, no one in France actually knows any physics, because it’s completely impossible to convey information effectively in French, and they just use it
by tobr 5y ago
That’s right, no one in France actually knows any physics, because it’s completely impossible to convey information effectively in French, and they just use it because they think it sounds good. Just like ClojureScript in tutorials.
- ajkjk 5y agothe idea is that you're in front of an english-speaking audience. The clojurescript makes this an absolute slog to read.
- eitland 5y agoI found it interesting, then remembered that in every single case (except maybe TypeScript) the new language is simpler only as long as you follow the tutorials closely. (Usually a mess of missing IDE support, missing documentation, big undocumented boilerplates etc). That said, a number of those languages are interesting and great even of they aren't as simple as the tutorials make them look.
- boondaburrah 5y agoIf you /know/ you're in front of an english speaking audience and deliberately don't speak that language sure, but there's no specific programming language for HN. Hell, hackernews itself is written in a lisp.
- ajkjk 5y agoThat doesn't really matter, most web development is in Javascript and if you want to communicate to web developers widely you should use (something that looks like) Javascript.
- marcellus23 5y agoYou utterly missed the point.
- adrusi 5y agoNo, the parent comment's point was that some people use clojurescript, just like soms people speak French. Sure, most people who use clojurescript can read javascript, but most people (in Europe/NA) who speak French will also understand English. And yet we don't criticise profs of physics in France for lecturing in French.