Why programming languages matter [video]
Programming languages do matter but not as much as many people think f.ex. the HN crowd has a soft spot for LISP, and most of the don&#x27;t even have proper parallel execution (and no I am not talking OS threads, having direct access to those should honestly be removed at one point). And sure, Racket and a few others are &quot;Working on having an actor model&quot;. Wake me up when they achieve it. I am betting on somewhere in the 2030s, best case scenario.<p>A combination of a good and restrictive language compiler (Rust, OCaml, Haskell) and an amazing runtime (Erlang) is the sweet spot that everyone should be aiming at.<p>If anything, I am very tired of seeing yet another LISP dialect -- or any other language really, come to think of it now -- being announced. Many of us the programmers love to play and going to check on these languages is IMO taking away precious mind-share.<p>If anything, in my eyes it&#x27;s exactly because programming languages matter is the reason why we should have <i>less</i> of them. We should start folding some languages inside others. (Or abandon them.)