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Comment by tschellenbach

7 years ago

It's like SQL, but different. About as hard to learn, not fully developed and incompatible with years of tooling in the ecosystem.

This critique reminds me of Dart: A better JavaScript, that wasn't better-enough to be worth the transition.

I have the same concerns about the proposed language. Yes it's better, but is that enough? What's going to drive adoption?

  • Dart was better enough, as evidenced by the recent uptick of Typescript. Had it been released in 2019, I could envision a different story.