noLemming

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   by noLemming 6mo ago

   Well, okay Shriram said the term "homoiconicity" is fuzzy, but the underlying thing (the language of data and the language of programs being the same representation) is real and worth taking seriously. Citing him to wave away the
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   by noLemming 6mo ago

   What a thought-terminating cliché. It sounds reasonable while saying nothing. "Useful ideas, but..." what? "But it's not popular"? Neither was Python before it become one. But it doesn't have a big ecosystem? Y
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   by noLemming 6mo ago

   I think you're confusing newcomers landscape of "which library do I pick", (which is real) with stretched evidence for fundamentally fragmented ecosystem. Let's walk through your examples: SQL libraries: Korma is dead, Y