Zooming out, this is the case in a lot of the programming world in general. Massive, massive duplication of effort so that each language community can do the sa

Zooming out, this is the case in a lot of the programming world in general. Massive, massive duplication of effort so that each language community can do the same stuff as everyone else, but in their preferred language. There's what, 20-30 different general-purpose languages out there with a sizeable library ecosystem? Now don't get me wrong, I love programming languages. It's all fun and interesting. But it's a bit absurd too.