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Languages are more like tools or materials than spoken language. It's also literally impossible to pick just one - you would fail at the JavaScript vs C proble
by bcrosby95 5y ago
Languages are more like tools or materials than spoken language.
It's also literally impossible to pick just one - you would fail at the JavaScript vs C problem.
But maybe if we always had this philosophy, we would all be coding everything in cobol.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y ago> It's also literally impossible to pick just one - you would fail at the JavaScript vs C problem. We could just make one language that had the features of both javascript and C. We literally can invent anything we want. A n y t h i n g. We have to throw away all our preconcieved notions about what's possible and just make the world the way we want it to be / a way that's better than we have now
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- djur 5y agoIn the same sense we could invent a single appliance that performs all kitchen tasks, rather than having a separate refrigerator, food processor, stove, oven, etc.
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- amazd 5y agorelevant: https://brython.info/ https://brython.info/ Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web. As such, it is a Python 3 implementation
- Zababa 5y agoAnd people will call your language "bloated", and say "I only need those specific features which will allow my language to be developped faster/faster to compile/easier to learn/etc" and we're back again to multiple languages. Of course your simple language will then grow, gain more functionalities (since eitehr you will add them, or you will be replaced by something that adds them), etc. Then people will find your language bloated, create a new simple language. We've been through this cycle many times already. Same with frameworks (micro vs fully featured), databases (SQL vs NoSQL), web stuff (server rendered HTML vs JS).