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Comment by doug_durham

3 months ago

What innovation? Languages with curly braces versus BEGIN/END? There is no innovation going on in computer languages. Rust is C with better ergonomics and rigorous memory management. This was made possible with better processors which made more elaborate compilers practical. It all gets compiled by LLVM down to the same object code. I think we are moving to an era of "read-only" languages. Languages that have horrible writing ergonomics yet are easy to understand when read. Humans won't write code. They will review code.