I train Rust since 4 years (Meetup, Hack & Learn and actually as a paid trainer for 3 years now) and I _hate_ it when people bring up "learnability" in language RFCs. Most of the time, it's a bit of anecdata, scrapped together.
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I used to speak about it a lot but nothing formal, mostly tweets. However, I think this article hits a lot of the points I frequently make: https://fredrikdeboer.com/2017/03/29/why-selection-bias-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-education/ … Most education "studies" are after the fact analyses of selections of students who didn't need the education.
So, if someone claims their language is "easy to learn", but then points at only the few people who succeed at it, then chances are they're seeing selection bias for people who can learn just about any language, not any kind of real analysis of how it would do with anyone.
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Right, thanks :). I found the talk I was thinking of, which goes kind of along the same lines: https://vimeo.com/53062800
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Ahhh that one. Yes, that's a slightly different point but orthogonal to the selection bias.
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