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Personally I think expressivity and type system power are what make a language "fun". If languages were video games, the Lisp family and Lean4 feel much more li
by nylonstrung 2mo ago
Personally I think expressivity and type system power are what make a language "fun". If languages were video games, the Lisp family and Lean4 feel much more like an open-world game with many ways to play it like Factorio or Minecraft.
At the other end, Go would perhaps be the equivalent of an on-rails shooter.
And it honestly makes me disagree with the thesis here because "boring" unexpressive languages have arguably outperformed in terms of adoption for loadbearing software