Ramin Honary on Nostr: #SchemeLang (the Scheme programming language) is not a mainstream language, and there ...
#SchemeLang (the Scheme programming language) is not a mainstream language, and there are a lot of drawbacks to this, mostly involving a lack of resources for everything from documentation and tutorials, to libraries and tooling. It just doesn’t have enough of an “online presence” for it to be easier to learn and use, and it is hard to find people whom you can ask questions about it. On the other hand, virtual communities form around programming languages, including #Scheme , and the fact that it is not used very often in commercial projects makes the Scheme community a very close-knit one.
It also lets you see what the world might be like without Silicon Valley tech bro culture or venture capital’s innate drive toward enshittification of everything affecting every aspect of the community around this programming language. You can find libraries of code that haven’t been updated in a decade that still work fine today. When you find a tutorial or documentation, it is not usually AI slop, or search-engine optimized clickbait, or only available behind paywalls on sites that still serve you ads after you have a subscription, or YouTube videos (if there are any) explaining the basics of how to use it interrupted every 5 minutes by the presenter doing an ad for their sponsors.
I especially like the fact that every last library or framework does not have a cute logo, or it’s own domain name, or a website in which the content is 98% marketing jargon and 2% documentation and tutorials. If #Scheme ever goes mainstream, I am going to miss this aspect of it.
It also lets you see what the world might be like without Silicon Valley tech bro culture or venture capital’s innate drive toward enshittification of everything affecting every aspect of the community around this programming language. You can find libraries of code that haven’t been updated in a decade that still work fine today. When you find a tutorial or documentation, it is not usually AI slop, or search-engine optimized clickbait, or only available behind paywalls on sites that still serve you ads after you have a subscription, or YouTube videos (if there are any) explaining the basics of how to use it interrupted every 5 minutes by the presenter doing an ad for their sponsors.
I especially like the fact that every last library or framework does not have a cute logo, or it’s own domain name, or a website in which the content is 98% marketing jargon and 2% documentation and tutorials. If #Scheme ever goes mainstream, I am going to miss this aspect of it.