Re:Go is not an easy language
by allenu on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:14PM
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> Ease of use is the most important part of a language.
It's really a matter of who your target audience is and what they're trying to achieve, though, isn't it? You might make a language easy for the whole world to use, but simultaneously make it hard for specific tasks. Likewise, a language might be easy to use for experts who are trying to achieve a specific task, but difficult for newbies. That's totally okay.
BASIC was super easy to understand and helped me get into programming, but there's no way I would use it for anything serious today.
It's really a matter of who your target audience is and what they're trying to achieve, though, isn't it? You might make a language easy for the whole world to use, but simultaneously make it hard for specific tasks. Likewise, a language might be easy to use for experts who are trying to achieve a specific task, but difficult for newbies. That's totally okay.
BASIC was super easy to understand and helped me get into programming, but there's no way I would use it for anything serious today.