[williamcotton]

It seems entirely possible to create a tool for making little languages that also supports interfaces for tooling and documentation. Tooling is actually quite abysmal for general purpose languages and as the article points out the tooling for little languages can be much more powerful when there’s a smaller surface area. Also we could build languages that are primarily geared around tooling and documentation instead of languages designed around different manners of defining functions and iterating over lists.

I also don’t think that anyone has ever suggested that making a custom language is a small endeavor.

Whatever the future of programming languages it will definitively not be popular at first and negative criticisms will be the top-rated commentary. And when the new paradigm comes I can almost guarantee that the majority of the HN crowd will be too old and set in its ways to make the transition. Why would the future be any different than the past with regards to paradigms shifts?