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by sylware 540 days ago
The "need of larger teams" does not justify to delegate the core of the technical interfaces to a grotesquely and absurdely complex and gigantic computer language with its compiler (probably very few real life ones).

This is accute lack of perspective, border-line fraud.

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Not all problems are technical. Some are social. Velocity of a large team should absolutely be taken into account when designing software. Does the concept of an assembly line also upset you? Not every thing can be done by a single craftsperson working in isolation or in a small group.

I'm not suggesting where we ended up is ideal, but it has utility. I hope for a language reset akin to kotlin for the c++ community at some point to help resolve the complexity we've managed accumulate over decades. There is a decent amount of effort from various parts of the ecosystem to accomplish this.