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There is also a more general "case against the self-indulgent narcissism in creating a new language". There are an insane number of languages with the longevity of a mushroom mentioned on HN.


Heh. This article was posted shortly after we instituted a ban [0] on language talks at Handmade Seattle 2022.

There's an oversupply of enthusiastic engineers trying to provide C alternatives and it's creating massive bike-shedding and yak-shaving problems.

Language designers are encouraged to give a presentation if it's about building quality software using a language. Otherwise, no.

[0] https://vimeo.com/handmadeseattle/languages-are-banned




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