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There's a pre-supposition in the community that bigger languages are typically worse, but I'm not sure that's true. There are also multiple ways to measure lang
by danpalmer 4y ago
There's a pre-supposition in the community that bigger languages are typically worse, but I'm not sure that's true. There are also multiple ways to measure language "size" and most arguments I've seen conflate language features and standard library (which can often have overlap).
As counter-examples, I'd raise the Wolfram language (and maybe Matlab, but I haven't used that) as an example of a truly vast language – in terms of "standard library". On the other hand almost all criticism of Go has historically revolved around it being too small.