Always happy to clarify something I was vague about. I get asking that question when you're talking about lesser known tech, but when someone writes an entire

Always happy to clarify something I was vague about. I get asking that question when you're talking about lesser known tech, but when someone writes an entire language themselves, it's a bit disingenuous to think they don't know about two of the largest languages on the planet. It'd be more reasonable to ask "What advantages does this have over the standard library in python or ruby?". A similar question would be looking at ruby or python and wondering why you should use those when perfectly good ANSI C exists. As to the second part of my statement, I hope that's fairly obvious, but I'll lay it out explicity: Not all code needs to be a product vying for market share to be useful. Some code is for the author to learn from, some code is for making art, some code is for shits and giggles to throw into the world on a lark because someone else might do something with it, or learn something from it, or use it to solve that _exact_ bug they've been having in something just cause they see you did something similar a different way.