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The issue I have with your approach is twofold: the 1000 garage tinkerers are harmless, and your approach forgoes the Guido Van Rossums, Rich Hickeys, Chris Lat
by samatman 5y ago
The issue I have with your approach is twofold: the 1000 garage tinkerers are harmless, and your approach forgoes the Guido Van Rossums, Rich Hickeys, Chris Lattners and so on.
I've met a bunch of people who do things like write their own typed concatenative language. So I can tell you, first of all, that they tend to spend the week merrily contributing to, say, orchestrating Kube clusters, and second, the time they spend bit banging their pet programming language wasn't going to go towards more orchestrating Kube clusters. Or whatever it is you think is actually important.
- eternityforest 5y agoThat's fine, but it seems like the target audience of the article is the people who hope to become the next Van Rossum. It might even be aimed at people deciding whether their team at work should pursue a new language for some specific task. Maybe this could be solved with a special badge that tells people which of the Three Tribes of Programmers you're writing for... For purely toy projects, I'm not sure if any code blog advice at all is that helpful, except possibly "Make stuff really small if you want to impress other programmers". Best Practices don't apply the same way to this kind of thing, since in a real industry project the best practice would probably be "Just don't".