> I believe that languages and compilers should go way beyond just "enable things to be possible", but they also should be user friendly and be safe/sane by def

> I believe that languages and compilers should go way beyond just "enable things to be possible", but they also should be user friendly and be safe/sane by default. Everyone one wants sane and safe default, and ease of use etc... etc... The questions here is more nuance is about should an existing ( and dare i say very successful) language navigate the need for backward compatibility with with security and UX concerns. > That's why I'm critiquing this chaos. Critiquing a design is fair. Critiquing without understanding the context and constraints around the said design is not particularly helpful and tend to rub people the wrong way. Adding platitudes like "user friendly and be safe/sane" gets old even faster. > It is insane. Not really... it's just the results of very very constrained design space. Reality is messy >