At one point in 2011, I quipped: "There is no dearth of new languages. Everyone who knows how to lex/parse can build one. And they will build one."
It's the same thing with any other piece of technology for me. It's easy to build tech. But In my opinion, when I look at new tech, here is when it is genuinely better tech for me:
- Cross platform, solves toolchain issues
- Provides a great debugger/observability interface
- Integrate well with native/os/hardware. Open interface
- Has decent basic primitives and not the kitchen sink
- Well designed that the core is stable and is compatible for 5 years. "It's the design, stupid."
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At one point in 2011, I quipped: "There is no dearth of new languages. Everyone who knows how to lex/parse can build one. And they will build one."
It's the same thing with any other piece of technology for me. It's easy to build tech. But In my opinion, when I look at new tech, here is when it is genuinely better tech for me:
That's it for me.