The illusion of apparent simplicity

Posted May 4, 2022 11:36 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: The illusion of apparent simplicity by ddevault
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

> Hare is much simpler than Zig, and can do similar tasks

No, it cannot. For example it cannot do async/await.

> A Hare *compiler* written on the day of the 1.0 release will still compile new code written 50 years from now.

Thanks for proving that you aren't learning from past mistakes, I guess.

Posted May 6, 2022 7:23 UTC (Fri) by ddevault (subscriber, #99589) [Link]

I was not referring to a similar set of language features, but a similar set of supported use-cases.