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Comment by pdimitar

I don't think it has almost anything to do with vibe-coding. When I tried Haskell and OCaml some 3 years ago, they were infuriating in terms of tooling and just needless friction (don't ask, forgot, but it was mostly around package management and just entering a project and be able to run the program was a saga).

Iteration speed is not only to appease business people. As a long-time dev I prefer for my PL and its tooling to not stand in my way. I want to be enabled, not be left a scarred veteran with badges of honor like "Managed to install 5 dependencies and compile and run! And it only took me 3 hours!" or some such.

Compare to Golang, Rust, Elixir, and no small amount of others -- you add a dependency, run a command, twiddle your thumbs 30 seconds, done.

I want to solve problems. Not troubleshoot tooling that should have been prod-ready 10 years ago.

parent pdimitar 3 months ago

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