Mike Taylor 🦕 on Nostr: "If I were to categorize programming languages like art movements, there would be ...

"If I were to categorize programming languages like art movements, there would be mid-century utilitarianism (Fortran, COBOL), high-theory formalism (Haskell, Agda), Americorporate pragmatism (C#, Java), grassroots communitarianism (Python, Ruby), and esoteric hedonism (Befunge, Brainfuck). And I’d say Go, often described as “C for the 21st century,” represents neoclassicism: not so much a revolution as a throwback."
https://www.wired.com/story/attention-spoiled-software-engineers-take-a-lesson-from-googles-programming-language/