I’m in favor of big general purpose languages. Why? Not for their own sake. Just because it’s tedious to use multiple languages. - How do they communicate? May

I’m in favor of big general purpose languages. Why? Not for their own sake. Just because it’s tedious to use multiple languages. - How do they communicate? Maybe Json if it’s just data. For more control you need FFI - And FFI is such a hassle that some languages seem to focus mostly on getting a nice C FFI - ... That lingua franca that proves that you can have all the simple languages that you want as long as its name is one letter and starts with “c” - All kinds of minute differences that are real tradeoffs when it comes to each individual language become major pains when switching between them - Sometimes you seem to have to rule out languages just because they don’t have good libraries for X. Or can’t do concurrent tasks. How are multiple small languages supposed to flourish when 20+ year old languages can’t get good library coverage or get rid of their global interpreter lock? I would like small languages if they all played nicely together. But they almost never do.