> Dean was doing an Erlang project so he asked “What example program would best exemplify Erlang“.
I wish such a canonical example was easy to find for every programming language, particularly those on the boundary between mainstream and exotic languages.
Most languages present themselves by waxing philosophical about HoTT, zero-cost abstractions, or parametric types. Show me an example where your language is clearly better than Python, Ruby, TypeScript, C#, or Rust, because those are the languages to beat, and they already have the entire infrastructure set up so unless you can demonstrably outperform them in some way, it's probably not worth my time to take a deeper look.
But what if it’s better for complex tasks or large programs? I also wish language home pages would show examples of what makes the language special right away but it’s not always that easy.
I wish such a canonical example was easy to find for every programming language, particularly those on the boundary between mainstream and exotic languages.
Most languages present themselves by waxing philosophical about HoTT, zero-cost abstractions, or parametric types. Show me an example where your language is clearly better than Python, Ruby, TypeScript, C#, or Rust, because those are the languages to beat, and they already have the entire infrastructure set up so unless you can demonstrably outperform them in some way, it's probably not worth my time to take a deeper look.