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What are the most interesting upcoming scripting languages? Scripting remains an important part of the programming language ecosystem. Optimise time to first feature. Allow mutation of the running system to experiment. Interactive inspection of data.

@janriemer@mastodon.technology Wow, that's a cunning trick. Hash map size remains a bottleneck for my difftastic project, I wonder if I can do something similar.

"Minus 100 points", an article on deciding how to add features C#, remains one of the best introduction to PL design principles I've seen: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericgu/minus-100-points (Design is hard, combinatorial complexity grows easily, saying "no" needs to be a default.)