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by tariqali34 3650 days ago
"The fact that a language is new means that nearly everyone, except for the creator and early dogfooders, is new to it, which means they come to it with roughly the same perspective (and needs and wants) as anyone who is curious to jump in."

This is why I don't trust new languages. Everyone starts off as newbies who do not know what they are doing and will struggle to develop best practices. These programmers are just going to make new mistakes...that they won't realize until after the language reaches legacy status and are forced to clean up their mess.
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true_religion 3650 days ago
New languages typically still use the same mental models of existing languages.

Elixir for example uses Erlang data-structures, and semantics for code execution, and functional calls/naming/parameters.

Elixir is an impure dynamic functional language where IO operates on its own green-threadlike process. This is from Erlang as well, but the concept of dynamic languages, and functional languages is not a new one. Neither is the concept of hygienic macros. Elixir is simply a very good implementation of such.

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