Mariano Guerra
Despite all the effort that has gone into it, it doesn’t look like programming language design has any real compounding power. There are better and worse languages, but other market and technical forces can swamp language choices.https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1689297553408315392
Konrad Hinsen
08/10/2023, 10:44 AMDon Abrams
08/10/2023, 12:14 PMChris G
08/10/2023, 3:08 PMWalker Griggs
08/10/2023, 8:09 PMNetwork effects in particular are often dominant for the adoption of technology.My language choice these days is almost 100% dictated by the community contributed library ecosystem. That said, Carmack was talking specifically about languages themselves, so I think I agree with him
Andrew F
08/10/2023, 8:25 PMirvin
08/11/2023, 1:19 PMBut to say that there are no order of magnitude gains in language tech at all ignores history.I hadn't thought about it on a long time scale, but that's a good point. It also made me think even if "better" languages are developed and not widely used, they can still have a big impact since they can act as proof of concept and good ideas from them can make their way into more popular languages.
Don Abrams
08/11/2023, 1:47 PMJoão Araújo
08/14/2023, 12:38 AMSteve Dekorte
08/14/2023, 4:51 AMBeni Cherniavsky-Paskin
08/14/2023, 3:51 PMgit rebase -i
is, compared to some hypothetical direct-manipulation UI, and i thought to myself "what do you mean, rebase -i is direct manipulation on the conceptual level I care for".Don Abrams
08/14/2023, 5:23 PMBeni Cherniavsky-Paskin
08/14/2023, 5:39 PMKonrad Hinsen
08/16/2023, 8:05 AMwtaysom
08/16/2023, 1:37 PMAndrew F
08/17/2023, 9:40 PM