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blake shaw 🇵🇸

People are seeing better results in less time while having more fun targeting the latter. But if its not a massive industrial pile of fast moving complexity seeped in corporate interests it cant be very serious, right? I mean, 4mb? C'mon, thats not a very serious compiler. I want my compiler toolchain to be big, strong, manly.

Panicz Maciej Godek

@rml when I was young, I read "The C Programming Language" by K&R and learned C. But then I saw Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language", and thought to myself: "since this book is so thick, it must be what professionals use to solve serious problems".

I think the whole industry still thinks that way. "It can't be serious if it's only 4MB and compiles itself in seconds, rather than hours"

Panicz Maciej Godek

@rml also, I think that the fact that writing a Scheme interpreter is often an introductory exercise in various programming language courses (such as Haskell or Java) helps cement its reputation as a 'toy programming language'

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