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by rkangel 4480 days ago
I'm pretty sure there's no one with an encyclopaedic knowledge of programming languages. The industry is enormous, and just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean that it's irrelevant. "Niche" is not the same as "irrelevant".

And even if it WAS irrelevant and only important to a very small number of people, that doesn't mean it can be ignored.

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>And even if it WAS irrelevant and only important to a very small number of people, that doesn't mean it can be ignored.

I don't follow. That sounds like the exact criteria for something to be ignored.

This really explains SV's homeless problem.
Given infinite time and developer bandwidth, sure. But we don't live in that world, so "do the work that gives the most benefit to the most users" remains the preferable real-world strategy.
Except that primary_extension does not serve any purpose.