I’m raising my eyebrows…

People or AI...

I wrote about it 13 years ago, some of it still stands true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5857495

This is include ads that impersonate google services, e.g. "your google translate has expired, upgrade to a new version". Reporting it to google is like yelling at a wall. Or worse, yelling at a wall after a few million years will slowly erode it due to the air friction.

When a benchmark becomes a target, it's no longer a good benchmark...

people are just fighting for numbers.. i don't fundamentally see the model being better

While this may be a funny take, the real one I tend to see happening in the real world sometimes (and is mentioned by contrast in the post) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1053/

It was a pet project of mine back in 2013 [0]... revived it (with a bit of help from Claude) and made it updated to Scala 3. Feedback welcome!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614130

Very cool, I love Scala and am quite sad that it isn't getting the interest and popularity it should.

Me too. It's my favorite language by far. So expressive. Although that can be a downside.

Instead of being sad, have you considered evaluating why that is?

Would evaluating the reason(s) (a futile endeavor, if you ask me) replace my sadness? Hardly.

It's a beautiful language I enjoy working with, and I'm saddened it isn't used and adopted by more people.

The goal isn't to replace, it's to understand so you can grow past it.

If you start from the fact that people haven't adopted it, maybe it's not as beautiful or enjoyable to most developers.

My guy, I am bummed that such a powerful and readable language isn't more popular. I don't need to grow past anything. Being bummed about stuff is part of life.

The reasons it isn't more well adopted are many. The conclusion that therefor it's "not beautiful or enjoyable to most developers" is flawed and baseless. It assumes perfect meritocracy where the most beautiful and enjoyable languages for developers are the most popular ones.

I agree, being bummed is part of life, so is growing past it. Only so much time for what could have been.

I don't think it would require a "perfect meritocracy" for languages that are found "beautiful" and "enjoyable" to succeed if they are also "practical" and have accessable tooling.

What makes languages popular is clearly multidimensional, where astehctics are certainty one dimension (even ugly languages get updates over time if there's enough energy behind the project) but so is timing, tooling, investment, community, etc.

I think it's reasonable to conclude that whatever beautiful nature is/was there wasn't enough. In terms of weight of importance, or degree of agreement.

Aperture Science

We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead

This explains so much.

We doodoo what we must.

Nicely done. A shuffle letters button would be nice.