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Re:Perl7 is a fork of values by Izkata on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:09PM (#24023068)
Offhand there's also TypeScript, Dart, and CoffeeScript instead of javsScript (kinda, they do compile into it, but are conceptually distinct).

GP's point was that we're no longer in the situation where only one language is capable of doing what you want, so there's no "compelling reason" to use a particular one. You can pick the one you like instead of being compelled to a particular one.

Re:Perl7 is a fork of values by Izkata on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:19PM (#24025786)
> javsScript

Oh wow, that headache I had earlier really got me. I remember thinking "should I capitalize 'script' or not?" since I usually wouldn't but it's the right way to type both TypeScript and CoffeeScript and it looks nicer to be consistent and not technically wrong, but didn't notice "javs" at all.

Much too late to edit it now.

Re:Perl7 is a fork of values by int_19h on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:43AM (#24070074)
A "compelling reason" is not just about language capabilities. It's also about how easy it is to find developers for said language, what quality is the tooling, how stable is it anticipated to be going forward based on its history etc.