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steveklabnik
@steveklabnik
I think putting Rust in here is *slightly* misleading, but that doesn't ruin the point. We have had certain vintages (1995 was one for sure, I think 2009-2010 counts too) where there's suddenly a bunch of languages, and then a long time between. When's the next one?
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James Socol
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Go, Rust, and NodeJS all came out within a year. Sometimes I wonder what problem is gonna push people to create a new batch of languages trying to solve it
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steveklabnik
@steveklabnik
I would *like* to think that at least one of the thing that comes next is that someone solves the usability issues with dependent typing. I also don't really think someone *can* make better syntax for Rust that serves the same goals, but sometimes I wonder.
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steveklabnik
@steveklabnik
oh and a really dumb niche PLT joke I've been kicking around the past few days: a language where the De Bruijn indicies start at 1 "joke" is maybe too charitable
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