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ramon156today at 12:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

So which language had it right from the start? is there a language that has a very low rewrite status?


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poncho_romerotoday at 3:14 PM

I think Elixir is a good candidate here. It's small, coherent, and composes well, and (at least to my understanding) the authors consider the language finished, with no new major features planned.

bbkanetoday at 1:06 PM

I'd particularly like examples of statically typed languages that "got it right" (since I love me my types)

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maccardtoday at 1:12 PM

That’s whataboutism - no language is perfect, but given when go released it’s fair to hold them to a higher standard than languages what were designed 25 years earlier.

As an aside - D, Zig, Rust, even typescript got most of the lessons learned from C right

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