I think I&#x27;m just surprised and saddened that HN heaps so much hatred on P6. I mean, we&#x27;re a community of hackers: do we really need to ask &quot;why another programming language&quot;?<p>The hatred P6 receives here reminds me a lot of the hatred Go used to receive, where every article posted devolved into a discussion regarding the lack of generics. I bought into the &quot;Go is a regression&quot; meme for a long time until I started using it to solve real problems at work, and now I love it.<p>I hope that we programmers can learn to rejoice in each other&#x27;s creations rather than to heap scorn and criticism on anything not from our particular tribe. It reminds me of people who insist that you can only like a single video game console... heaven forbid you use more than one, or one with inferior graphics (but with more fun games!), etc.