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Programming languages are tools, not religions. If a project like this can help people use and understand their tools that is a good thing. Reacting as if the infidel language is defiling the sacred is absurd and indefensible from a practical standpoint.


Well yes... unless you realize that ours is a fashion-driven industry, where technical choices are not made based on technical merits but via a popularity contest. From a practical standpoint, complaining about propagation of bad choices is absolutely defensible.

Or, to put in another way: today you don't complain about crap tech pushing out good tech, tomorrow half of the jobs in your field require you work with the crap tech.


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Are you seriously hung up on keywords? Also, you are not required to use "let"...


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If you want to troll you should be more subtle about it. Or at least have the courage to use your main account rather than a throwaway


> language that requires the "let" keyword is absurd and indefensible

I would seriously like to see you defend this viewpoint.


Then you will wipeout a big list of programming languages, given how many use let for assignments.




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