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by star-techate
2855 days ago
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That has its downsides, but if the people maintaining the language are too lacking in strong opinions about the language, you'll have other kinds of problems: bad features get into the language and now everyone must be prepared to deal with errant use of those features in the wild; there are too many too similar ways to do the same thing, so the language becomes hard to learn and teach; there are features you never normally use, so you're terribly confused when you accidentally invoke them (suppose you have `val` and `var` as two ways to bind variables, but everyone only uses `val` because `var` has some weird extra semantics.) |
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This is what I love about programming languages; it's a true marketplace of ideas. There's something out there for everyone, and a project of every flavor. You see this happen all the time with languages projects, especially opinionated ones, where someone likes the general vibe of the language, but wishes it were more like something they are more comfortable with. But sometimes a language just wants to be where it is, especially when it's run by one ego. Programming languages can be very personal things for their authors, much like a novel is for writers.