Making programming simple again

2024-01-24

As we learn how to program computers, our tools should get simpler. Instead it seems that complexity only grows over time. We should find ways to make programming simple again.

Sources of complexity in programming

there are many programming languages
there are many package management systems
there are many calling conventions
everything is based on c/c++ code

package management for c/c++ code is still not solved, although Conan ⬀ seems promising.

many CPU instruction set architectures
many operating systems

Solutions

shared runtime such as .NET, JVM and WASM let different languages interoperate seamlessly and can provide virtual machine that can execute the same binary in all instruction set architectures and operating systems
shared package management system such as Maven or NPM can serve multiple programming languages
there is need for roughly two types of languages: static for high performance and dynamic for high abstraction level. Embedding static language to dynamic language would serve both needs while minimising the friction between the two programming paradigms.

→ systems programming language embedded in a higher level language

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