As someone whose spent the last 9 years writing a programming language, I would say this author is correct. Not necessarily about the GUI in particular, but abo

As someone whose spent the last 9 years writing a programming language, I would say this author is correct. Not necessarily about the GUI in particular, but about the larger point that there are any number of aspects in PL design which will consume an infinite amount of time. For them in was a gui, for others it’s a type system, compiler, package manager, language server, memory management, parallelism, or any number of other infinitely complex subtopics in the field. I made a comment yesterday to this effect yesterday, so I’ll just leave that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30484632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30484632