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> we should be much more ambitious for the Next Generation of programmers

There's a lot of value in using simpler (but modern) languages in production instead of something choke-full of paradigms. Creators of popular languages seem to more or less agree with that (e.g. Java -> Kotlin, C++ -> Golang, Scala -> Dotty/Scala3).

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I guess C++ -> Golang is debatable, maybe Python -> Golang?

If I remember correctly, one of the motivators for Go was the desire to avoid having to use C++ by the original authors. That said, I agree that Pyhon -> Golang fits in that trend too.

True, but they dumbed Go so much down that they hardly attracted anyone used to write modern code in C++.

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

To be fair, Googlers can't write modern C++ because they have a critical mass of legacy code that has never been exception-safe. Avoiding RAII kneecaps the whole language badly.

Google doesn't avoid RAII, they just avoid exceptions.

The beauty of RAII is that every resource is tied to the lifetime of an object, and every object is always in a usable state. Having to call extra open/close methods and check error codes breaks these invariants, and leads to objects with bad fidelity to the normal copy and move semantics the language is built on.

Totally agree - and "new paradigms" isn't the same thing as "choke-full of paradigms". What's more, there's as much value in taking things away than in adding them (how about classes for example?)

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