I'd love to see language design and language development treated as different disciplines.
Just like developers were the first web designers, developers have been the first language designers.
Ideally a language designer would only be tasked with how to express complex ideas in a simple, composable syntax.
Language developers would be tasked with everything else: basically making those ideas work as efficiently and consistently as possible.
Not to say a language designer and developer can't be the same person, but I think there might be some benefit to having a linguist (with some understanding of development) and a developer (with some understanding of linguistics) team up on a new language.
I'd love to see language design and language development treated as different disciplines.
Just like developers were the first web designers, developers have been the first language designers.
Ideally a language designer would only be tasked with how to express complex ideas in a simple, composable syntax.
Language developers would be tasked with everything else: basically making those ideas work as efficiently and consistently as possible.
Not to say a language designer and developer can't be the same person, but I think there might be some benefit to having a linguist (with some understanding of development) and a developer (with some understanding of linguistics) team up on a new language.