My favorite kind of hater post is “you tech bros will never understand the primal, numinous beauty of [most spiritually empty shit imaginable]” the allegedly sublime: Doing homework Taco Bell DoorDash Writing sql queries Booking flights

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I'm having the opposite feeling and am thinking we might be entering a "golden age" for PL design -- making languages for more than computers.

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the worst part of making a programming language is dealing with users. Now everyone will be vomiting out python, as a PL researcher I am finally free to work on my passion project: a PL with no users

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No one's going to care about good programming language design or anything like that. They'll just vomit out Python till the end of time, and if anything breaks, they'll vomit out a refactor. No one will ever understand anything, and maybe they no longer need to.

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Yes, but I also enjoyed understanding clean code, and nothing will ever be produced with legibility and cleanliness again.

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