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Work on long term projects like this tends to go in bursts. Stalled activity for a year isn’t unheard of. This project had a lot of activity in 2011, stalled th
by ModernMech 5y ago
Work on long term projects like this tends to go in bursts. Stalled activity for a year isn’t unheard of. This project had a lot of activity in 2011, stalled the better part of a decade, and then had a burst of 1600+ commits last year. This is the mark of a project that has renewed interest from its author.
- spicybright 5y agoNot a great language to code anything not a toy in then.
- ModernMech 5y agoSure, but that's 99% of languages out there. If you are evaluating a language for a real project, it's best to stick to the top 50-100 languages on stack overflow. Out here in the wild west of programming languages though, questions like "can I use this for anything real" aren't really material. Of course you can't, and the irregularity of the developer is just one reason out of many. Nonetheless, people find themselves drawn to these languages because they can actually offer something those top 50-100 languages can't -- fresh takes on programming language design and philosophy. True, we may never build anything more than a toy in these smaller niche languages, but still we can bring the insights gained back to our development practices in those top 50 languages.