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If you shake things up so much that users who previous dismissed your language are interested, you might also be making a big enough change that your current us
by tuckerman 1y ago
If you shake things up so much that users who previous dismissed your language are interested, you might also be making a big enough change that your current users look around as well. The pool of prospective new language users is always large but they won’t join a language that is dying because it churned all its existing users and package maintainers.
I say this as someone that gets a very bad taste in my mouth when handling errors in go but use it a fair bit nonetheless.