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You're not wrong, but I don't think they want to compete with those other languages. > Part of our work in developing Hare is laying the groundwork for a colla

You're not wrong, but I don't think they want to compete with those other languages. > Part of our work in developing Hare is laying the groundwork for a collaborative, productive, healthy community that people want to work in, ... Maybe that's enough? It's okay to be a niche, even toy, language. The community is the "feature" that makes it compelling, eh? Like how Gemini doesn't compete with WWW, or indeed how Sr.ht is not exactly a competitor to GitHub, but still has its value.

ncmncm 5y ago
He certainly does want to compete. He just doesn't want people making fair comparisons.
- carapace 5y ago
  > He certainly does want to compete. In what sense? I mean, he's not entering contests with it? (Forgive me for being dense.) > He just doesn't want people making fair comparisons. I dunno, I feel like he's been pretty up front about where Hare is different (not to say inferior) to other languages. (I should mention that I'm generally pro-ddevault even though I don't agree with everything he's into. (E.g. I'm not on the Graph DB bandwagon (yet?).) FWIW, I see Hare as a fun toy (a toy that can do real work through, to be sure.) As long as it and the ecosystem around it can attract people to work/play with it then it doesn't need to compete. (Except in the general sense of competing for time and attention with everything else.)