Re:Kit Programming Language
by bendmorris on Thursday September 20, 2018 @01:25PM
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These are valid concerns, particularly stability and long term support. Availability of libraries applies less to Kit or Zig thanks to first-class interoperability with C. I think this is the way forward for small new languages; you can avoid the challenge of creating an entire ecosystem for your language, and just fit it into an existing one.
I think the primary value of these new toy languages is they can explore aspects freely that can't just be explored in a more mature language. Sometimes after a concept has proven useful a mature language might be willing to incorporate it.
But I wouldn't use them on a serious project, because there will probably be few libraries and maybe no long term support for it.