When I sit around and think "what's the biggest improvement I could make personally to the computing world?" there's always this voice in my head saying "kidnap whoever is building the next package management system and lock them in a deep dark box."
There seems this fundamental disconnect between people making languages about how people use their languages. I don't have time to follow your Twitter feed, because I'm working on a lot of different things. I know it's important to you, the Language Developer, and so you think it should be important to me, the Language User. But I have dozens of things to keep track of, and all of them imagine that they're the most important thing in my world.
It's like the old office culture mocked in "Office Space" where the guy has 7 different bosses, each imagining their own kingdom is the most important.
There seems this fundamental disconnect between people making languages about how people use their languages. I don't have time to follow your Twitter feed, because I'm working on a lot of different things. I know it's important to you, the Language Developer, and so you think it should be important to me, the Language User. But I have dozens of things to keep track of, and all of them imagine that they're the most important thing in my world.
It's like the old office culture mocked in "Office Space" where the guy has 7 different bosses, each imagining their own kingdom is the most important.