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You're assuming a certain sort of perspectivalism: the only reasons X could be better than Y is that, from someone's pov, some language has X. This is kinda in
by mjburgess 3y ago
You're assuming a certain sort of perspectivalism: the only reasons X could be better than Y is that, from someone's pov, some language has X.
This is kinda insane. People can give reasons X is better than Y on grounds of various theoretical virtues of X -- that has nothing to do with a preference for any language.
Here's an example virute:
Behaviour should be consistent unless specialised. When specialised it should be obvious which specialisation is chosen.
(Violation: basically all of js' operators).