Post #3562041

2026-07-01 17:54 UTC

but instead of making languages more useful, there's a non-stop stream of trash i mean, consider Go, a language that came out in 2009, and which ignores around 41 years of language design progress and research, to create a thin reimplementation of Algol 68

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@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social 2026-07-01 17:56

Go was designed INTENTIONALLY to be feature-sparse because the people who made it wanted to make sure that any schmuck hired by google could write Go without having to learn fancier techniques so because google's corporate environment was hostile to TRAINING, they made Go

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@cholling@bytes.programming.dev 2026-07-01 19:12

@beka_valentine@kolektiva.social Do you have any good sources or starting points for programming language research specifically targeting usability?

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