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2 points by andreyf 5867 days ago | link | parent

Thought: is language design the right problem to be solving?

I've had an argument brewing in my head that what people consider language features is better thought of as IDE features. Compile time type checking, for example, ought to be part of the IDE as well as the language. Syntactic sugar also.

I would love to see the "best language" argument to be split up into two - "best language/IDE" and "best VM" arguments.



2 points by cchooper 5867 days ago | link

Isn't this just the difference between a language and it's implementation?

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