What bums me out about all these new alternatives to C/C++/Java is all the arbitrary and unjustified changes.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
You've got a userbase of 100s of millions who just want a fast, safe version of a language they're comfortable with. Don't surprise them.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
List all the syntactic changes you're making and categorize by "real improvement" and "arbitrary changes I just like." Ditch the latter.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
And for god's sake, spend some time with new programmers. If people are consistently encountering the same problem on day 1, you screwed up.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
what if the problem is caused by syntactically confusing constructs that "hundreds of millions of programmers" have learned to stab through?
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