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Re:Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for br... by SlowRobotAhead on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:18AM (#22376123)
> 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.

Re:Show HN: Kasaya – A scripting language and runtime for br... by exdsq on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:05PM (#22376516)
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.