I feel proponents of any programming language put a lot of spin around what isolated aspects it is good for, but fail to illustrate what a programmer in even one target domain gains from using it.

Are there programming language implementations unlike what is described above, that you feel back up their marketing?

  • Life is Tetris@leminal.spaceOP
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    1 month ago

    Ditto for Smalltalk and Lisp.

    Squeak Smalltalk and its evolutions, Pharo and Cuis, get talked up for being easy to program and re-program, but the closest to being a useful app is recent: the DrGeo rewrite. Others like Glamorous Toolkit and various proprietary developments with Cuis don’t lead to any useful outcome.