programming language theory has to be one of the most depressing fields of computer science
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you work your ass off only to get ignored and then 20 years later someone does what you did but slightly worse and takes credit for everything
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albeit they don't take credit intentionally
for example i've run into people who genuinely thought that rust came up with sum types/pattern matching
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Oh dear… :(
When we teach languages we defs need to remember to keep beating the drum of - ‘this is ancient tech’. I know Graydon etc. did back in the early days of Rust but it can be easy to forget to do.