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Why is that we need new languages? Why not improve existing languages? We, as a community, would benefit from solving the very limitations that lure developers
by rishi-dragon 12y ago
Why is that we need new languages? Why not improve existing languages? We, as a community, would benefit from solving the very limitations that lure developers into other languages.
- tormeh 12y agoBecause that would break backwards compatibility.
- reactor 12y agoI don't think that's the right argument. Re-writing few parts or writing entire app in new lang, which one would be better for app developer?
- iopq 12y agoIf only you could write a new service in a different language and then make requests to it... oh wait, you can! At my last job we had a Node.js app talk to a Scala backend and the other end of the system ran PHP. I mean we already had like 30 servers at least, so dedicating one to Node and a few to Scala wasn't a problem.