It's really hard for me to read past Lattner's quote. "Beautiful minimal syntax" vs "really bad compile times" and "awful error messages".
I know it's not helpful to judge in hindsight, lots of smart people, etc.
But why on earth would you make this decision for a language aimed at app developers? How is this not a design failure?
If I read this article correctly, it would have been an unacceptable decision to make users write setThreatLevel(ThreatLevel.midnight) in order to have great compile times and error messages.
Can someone shed some light on this to make it appear less stupid? Because I'm sure there must be something less stupid going on.
I know it's not helpful to judge in hindsight, lots of smart people, etc.
But why on earth would you make this decision for a language aimed at app developers? How is this not a design failure?
If I read this article correctly, it would have been an unacceptable decision to make users write setThreatLevel(ThreatLevel.midnight) in order to have great compile times and error messages.
Can someone shed some light on this to make it appear less stupid? Because I'm sure there must be something less stupid going on.