2 Jan
2022
2 Jan
'22
6:12 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 12:00:15PM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote:
This is my biggest issue with "modern software
development". Seems like every
project has to begin with it's own language, build system, package manager,
and so on. Were I a modern software developer I'd create all that plus a new
email client just to send this message :-) None of this behavior adds value.
It makes it so that practitioners have to learn many arcane incompatible
systems that all do pretty much the same thing.
This. This is it. You and I must be the same kind of weird because when
I wanted a scripting language that wasn't TCL weirdness, I had a compiler
built that compiled stuff that so looked like C, I had a guy fix a bug in
a patch that flew by.
My big complaint with stuff like Rust, or even Go (sorry Rob), is that they
picked a different syntax. Why not just use C syntax and extend it to do
what you want? Why must every project redo everything.
--lm who has moved to full on "Get off my lawn"