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Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else? by maxbond on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:19PM (#31250118)
> [A]ll languages which don't add anything new and improved are a drag on our collective computing experience.

If people weren't experimenting with weird esoteric languages, how would we have gotten any of the languages you list here? If I'm recalling correctly, K is descended from APL, a language you needed a special keyboard even to use. Rust synthesizes ideas from lots of small academic languages no one will ever ship software on.

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Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else? by tasuki on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:54PM (#31252771)
I'm not against esoteric languages at all! (as long as they bring something conceptually new/different :)

I guess my main gripe is the duplication of effort: same thing with a slightly different spin, the time wasted learning different libraries doing fundamentally the same thing, etc.

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