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This is especially true for programming languages. Which is why it drives me nuts when people complain at programming language developers when they dare use tha

• krisoft 3y ago
  > people complain at programming language developers when they dare use that language to develop other software Interesting. That sounds very weird. Do you have any example you could point at?
  • lifthrasiir 3y ago
    Self-hosted languages are said to be prone to overfit because that self-hosted implementation tends to be the only large application written in that language, so they converge into a similar set of features (in particular functional ones). Not necessarily bad by its own, as many features in modern languages do come from FP, but that convergence is frequently independent from the originally stated goal and ultimately lowers a probability of success.