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by nlh 2350 days ago
Just to add to that - I’m kind of in the same boat here. I had to read the homepage and intro sections a few times and I’m honestly still a bit lost in understanding who this benefits and why.

Just by way of anchoring: I’m no dunce, I’m a typical nerdy guy who knows his UNIX and has written lots of C, Python, JavaScipt, Ruby, etc. Written some mobile apps. Written plenty of web stuff. But I’m not immersed in any academic language study and not really an FP guy.

I don’t think you should dumb this down - the text itself is very good prose. But the context is missing something — perhaps a paragraph or two of anchoring for us “normal programmers” to explain why this is relevant to people who normally write Python web apps or Rust utilities or C++ games all day long (or if it’s not relevant, why, and who it is relevant for).

Good luck with the project!