> I would like to see much, much simpler programming languages, even if they're more verbose, as long as the result is improved readability and longevity of the code written in said languages.
I'm really sad to see this misconseption over and over on HN. Verbosity is so much worst than syntax complexity because you ends up having dozens of different patterns that do the same thing overall but with subtile differences on edge cases.
If you look at JavaScript pre-ES6, you had at least 10 ways of doing OOP with really different behaviors when it came to inheritence or encapsulation. This makes the code so hard to understand.
ES6 formalizing a specific semantic for OOP was godsend.
As long as you introduce syntax to help with what people are actually doing (and not juste because it looks cool) syntax addition enhance the code readability.
I'm really sad to see this misconseption over and over on HN. Verbosity is so much worst than syntax complexity because you ends up having dozens of different patterns that do the same thing overall but with subtile differences on edge cases.
If you look at JavaScript pre-ES6, you had at least 10 ways of doing OOP with really different behaviors when it came to inheritence or encapsulation. This makes the code so hard to understand.
ES6 formalizing a specific semantic for OOP was godsend.
As long as you introduce syntax to help with what people are actually doing (and not juste because it looks cool) syntax addition enhance the code readability.