Re:C++ Coroutines Do Not Spark Joy
by pron on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:33AM
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> I don't agree that it's somehow impossible to get things right and I'm not even sure you really believe that.
That depends what you mean by "things." Obviously, languages created in 2015 might fix mistakes made in 1985, and recognised as mistakes, in, say, 1995. But the things that a language needs to solve over its lifetime are mostly unknown when it's created. How the language handles the problems that are known when it's created is less interesting. If it doesn't do it well, it will never become popular. What's interesting is how it adapts when those problems change with time and new ones appear.
That depends what you mean by "things." Obviously, languages created in 2015 might fix mistakes made in 1985, and recognised as mistakes, in, say, 1995. But the things that a language needs to solve over its lifetime are mostly unknown when it's created. How the language handles the problems that are known when it's created is less interesting. If it doesn't do it well, it will never become popular. What's interesting is how it adapts when those problems change with time and new ones appear.