DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
Posted May 3, 2022 17:43 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by mads
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language
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".
