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If this language is looking for greater adoption, its website is doing a big disservice. It is incredibly challenging to find a single code snippet, and the doc
by primitivesuave 13y ago
If this language is looking for greater adoption, its website is doing a big disservice. It is incredibly challenging to find a single code snippet, and the documentation is mediocre at best. The interfaces that are shown in the documentation remind me of the computer system you see DMV employees fumbling around with. I love picking up random languages on a Sunday, but not this one.
- ape4 13y agoJust follow the link on the site to the Wikipedia article ;)
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- jnazario 13y agoconcur (and upvoted). i took a few minutes, peeked around at some other "niche" languages (you know, not exactly mainstream) to see how they fare in this - rust, D, julia, haskell - and compared them to python.org's website. python's is far more like the self site than like those others, it takes several clicks to get to a code snippet. so, i concur, but i think it's (sadly) not alone in that shortcoming.
- russellallen 13y agoYeah, its a fair cop. The website is old and more about people who already know about Self than people who don't. I'll put fixing it on my todo list.
- sebastianconcpt 13y agoThat's the spirit! It would be greatly appreciated
- primitivesuave 13y agoThank you for not taking my comment negatively, I completely understand the amount of work that goes into documentation and the other comments on this article helped me understand the usefulness of Self. I've bookmarked the page and will check it out some Sunday in the future.