Re:Beads: Computer language and toolchain
by bawolff on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:02PM
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> The current complexity level that people have to endure is unnecessarily high. Never before in history did people write in 3 different languages in the same source code file (as they routinely do in JS + CSS + HTML), where they don't even agree on how comments are notated.
People dont usually put them all in the same file. Html and css are mostly not even programming languages. And shell scripts commonly have sed or awk embedded in them.
I'm not saying that a more unified approach is bad, on the contrary there's pros and cons, but you're being a bit hyperbolic about it. Nothing about the current situation is that new or unique. Nor is proposing a more consistent environment new either. Computer world has been going back and forwards on this since forever.
People dont usually put them all in the same file. Html and css are mostly not even programming languages. And shell scripts commonly have sed or awk embedded in them.
I'm not saying that a more unified approach is bad, on the contrary there's pros and cons, but you're being a bit hyperbolic about it. Nothing about the current situation is that new or unique. Nor is proposing a more consistent environment new either. Computer world has been going back and forwards on this since forever.