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Re:“Stop Writing Dead Programs” by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop... by keturakis on Sunday October 16, 2022 @11:14AM (#33224198)
Right, I read your point that readability is as important to a language as other things.

But Rusher isn’t saying “use Clojure because it’s ahead of time as opposed to Rust/Go”. He’s making a point that some (often more niche) languages have built-in features that are better suited to what most of the development work is - debugging - and other languages should look to adopt them.

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Re:“Stop Writing Dead Programs” by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop... by zhxshen on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:51PM (#33237963)
Not just readability; trade-offs in every conceivable dimension: time efficiency, memory efficiency, developer efficiency, readability, maintainability, correctness, etc, etc...

Adopting the features he values is not free. A toll would be paid along a different axis.

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