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What's the concern? Is there any reason why disliking a language for reasons of fashion is bad? I personally think that I'd maybe prefer not to work with someo
by tel 13y ago
What's the concern? Is there any reason why disliking a language for reasons of fashion is bad?
I personally think that I'd maybe prefer not to work with someone who likes (and argues) for languages due to fashion... but I'm also a by-day-and-night Haskell developer, so I imagine that invalidates my opinion in some ways.
- afandian 13y agoFashion-based-programming leads to endless re-invented wheels and more effort going into running round in circles than looking a bit into history and learning from it. Ruby and Python seem to live in parallel, separate worlds. Oh look, here comes Node.js where everything's written again, this time in JS. I'm not arguing for monoculture but it's a bit sad to see isolated communities not working together. Haskell is an example of a language which a good reason to exist: solid unique PL qualities and is also highly applicable to specific problems.