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embedding-shapeyesterday at 6:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Every language over time becomes more and more unnecessarily complex.

Of course someone eventually will, so I might as well: Well, except for lisp-likes. I think the main reason programming languages grow and grow, is because people want to use them in "new" (sometimes new-new, sometimes existing) ways, and how you add new language features to a programming language? You change the core of the language in some way.

What if instead you made it really easy to change the core language from the language itself, when you need to, without impacting other parts of the codebase? Usually if you use a language from the lisp-"family" of languages, you'll be able to.

So instead of the programming language everyone is using grows regardless if you need it or not, it can stay simple and relatively small for everyone, while for the people who need it, they can grow their own hairballs "locally" (or be solid engineers and avoid hairballs in the first place, requires tenure/similar though).