Comment by direwolf20
18 days ago
How did that happen? How did toy languages start getting used for serious work?
I can understand JS to an extent because of first class functions, but Lua is like a better, properly designed JS and also has them.
18 days ago
How did that happen? How did toy languages start getting used for serious work?
I can understand JS to an extent because of first class functions, but Lua is like a better, properly designed JS and also has them.
> How did toy languages start getting used for serious work?
Because those "toy" languages delivered the goods, while the "serious" ones fumbled their way big time. It was very funny seeing how lambda-the-ultimate.org forum was a Drupal installation (meaning both PHP and said Drupal).
So they just got there first?
Not an impressive feat then. We all had to make do with shoddy stuff just to get a project done (and I am not talking only in programming but also in meat-space). But to then hold on to it with a death grip, yeah, these people I don't respect.
Nobody is stoping anyone on putting a quick project up-and-running using Rust, let's say. But good luck finding people to maintain it in the long run. And good luck finding the "batteries included" stuff. And good luck on many other things. We're all building bazaars, not cathedrals, and that's ok, even though we oftentimes seem to forget that.
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