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In evolution, most branches are dead-ends (just like in programming languages). Carbon for example is by design an evolutionary dead-end designed to solve some
by blub 4y ago
In evolution, most branches are dead-ends (just like in programming languages). Carbon for example is by design an evolutionary dead-end designed to solve some problems for Google. They’re trying to sell it as a generic tool, but knowing Google’s track record it’s hard to say how many will bite.
- still_grokking 4y ago> Carbon for example is by design an evolutionary dead-end designed to solve some problems for Google. I would concur. This shows actually nicely that the analogy to biological evolution matches well. Google is building some kind of cave fish. Biology did also such things when they were right for a given ecosystem niche.