Subj : Re: Advent of Code 2025
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Nov 28 2025 09:56:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ni> Sometimes I feel that way, but I also sometimes feel like if a tool
 Ni> works well, I might keep using it if a task seems appropriate for it.

Which is how things should work.  People try new stuff.  New stuff that works
stays around. New stuff that doesn't work dies the death it deserves.

 Ni> Also, looking at various technologies for things, sometimes it seems
 Ni> like there's a different "language of the month" for a while, and a few
 Ni> are in rotation for some types of projects.

Programmers, in general, write stuff that "scratches their itch".  Sometimes
other developers have the same itch, so they use other's tools.

No programming language was ever the be-all, end-all language for every type of
task.  But that doesn't stop programmers from trying.

 Ni> I'm not sure if any of those is really much better than the
 Ni> others.

In general, no.  That's why COBOL and FORTRAN are still around and still in
development.

But all languages have limitations and warts.  When developers start hitting
those limitations, they start looking at other tools to go past those
limitations and fix those warts.

In the case of Go, developers were tired of long build times and shared memory
problems in concurrent tasks.  So they built a language that solved those
problems.

But even when a language fails to reach critical mass, some of the ideas in
that language may make it into the next "new shiny language".


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