Re:Eve: Programming designed for humans
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:16PM
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> In retrospect, their harsh words about our current languages and tools representing a 1970s mindset come across as hubris.
Nah, I think the hubris is thinking you could make a business with a near-horizon payoff fixing the problem they accurately identified.
I can't think of any “build a new language” startups that have succeeded (I'm sure there's one out there somewhere, though.) Getting a language established is a long slog, unless you've got a mega-user as a partner from day one, which mostly happens when the project is developed internally by that mega-user.
Nah, I think the hubris is thinking you could make a business with a near-horizon payoff fixing the problem they accurately identified.
I can't think of any “build a new language” startups that have succeeded (I'm sure there's one out there somewhere, though.) Getting a language established is a long slog, unless you've got a mega-user as a partner from day one, which mostly happens when the project is developed internally by that mega-user.