Won't get into weeds on hasty metaphor, I'll just leave it at people aren't wrong for desiring features that are merely "nice-to-have".
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Yeah I think that's right. If people were out there saying that humans needed generics to survive sure.
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I think a simple scripting language with types but no advanced type system features is a nice sweet spot for apps.
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Dynamic languages and typed langs w/ advanced features can get away with building different kinds of frameworks.
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People are productive in bash but don't really write frameworks in it. Go abstractions tend to be shallower.
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This is a fine sweet spot to be in, especially for small services and CLI tools, which tend to be more concrete, closer to scripting.
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I'd even agree that the computing ecosystem could use a recalibration in this direction. But the silver-bulletness is unwarranted.
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