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I think the best approach is to make your language seamlessly interoperable with some existing language.
by wavemode 2y ago
I think the best approach is to make your language seamlessly interoperable with some existing language.
- throwaway313373 2y agoI guess it does help by making the cost of adoption lower. But my main point is that being an early adopter of a non-mainstream tech is fundamentally unpragmatic and usually people are driven to try something new by desire to try something __cool__ not by pragmatic considerations.
- IshKebab 2y agoWell that usually has significant downsides too so it's not as simple as "do that". But yeah if you can do that it's a big benefit.
- thih9 2y agoThe success of TypeScript, a syntactic superset of JS and recently the fastest growing programming language, seems to confirm it.
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- ksp-atlas 2y agoThat is one thing that could be a killer feature and I like Zig for it, but I can see myself using a language without that level of interoperability if it has a good enough killer feature set