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Then why do esoteric conlangs reach front page? I hope most people on HN find tech interesting regardless of practicality
by exdsq 5y ago
Then why do esoteric conlangs reach front page? I hope most people on HN find tech interesting regardless of practicality
- mminer237 5y agoBecause they are funny and tongue-in-cheek. If people were always seriously advocating that programming in PowerPoint was the future, they would probably be less popular.
- exdsq 5y agoI hope the future definition of ‘hacker’ is not making slightly more performant line-of-business applications. New languages that run over decentralized systems are cool regardless of utility, and I hope can be appreciated as such rather than having bear vs bull comments
- gizmo385 5y agoPeople aren't talking about crypto currencies in the same way they talk about esoteric languages - those are consistently framed as practically useless for-fun side projects. Crypto, on the other hand, is instead framed as a large scale revolution of our existing systems and pushed as something that should be used be people worldwide while having significant problems they many believe are very damaging on a societal level.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoTBH a (few) hundred votes are very far from "most users are interested in this". The more popular posts have upwards of 4k votes. https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/