DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language [LWN.net]

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 3, 2022 12:45 UTC (Tue) by mads (subscriber, #55377)
In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by nix
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

I think your comment is a perfect example of the "tidal wave of hate" the parent was referring to.

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DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 3, 2022 17:43 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't hate it. I don't know enough about it to hate it. Some parts of it seem very nice, but to me those parts are outnumbered by the parts I think are not. It seems to go to great lengths to not improve the areas where I think C-like languages need most improvement, and at least one of its designers lauds this as apparently being beneficial (though I have no idea why).

It seems like an unwise direction for programming language development to go in, and anybody pointing this out seems to be treated unpleasantly at best, judging by this thread. Is that hatred? If so, hatred is a whole lot weaker than I thought it was. Mild disapproval and a recommendation (again, based on very little more than this thread and a cursory read of the docs) that something is best avoided unless apparently baked-in faults are fixed first is not "hatred".

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 4, 2022 16:56 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

This whole things remids me about Hans Reiser (except, hopefully, without murder).

As in: both Reiser and SirCmpwn understand many things much deeper than many of us (including me, obviously), yet they are wrong about certain things, too… and they categorically refuse to even consider the possibility that they can be in the wrong.

This means that they can do really impressive things, yet they can't be trusted. A pity, really.