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SlowRobotAhead on Feb 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime...

> A scripting language is not a goal in itself

Agreed, I think this is a case where people forget “what is the problem I’m trying to solve” and instead get lost in a means not an ends.

exdsq on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

Depends if the goal was to make a scripting language and at the same time tackle a problem (or not). Some people like building stuff for the hell of it. A language by itself is an interesting non-trivial project.

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