I don't want to go to Chel-C

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/344859

We are constantly reading of stories with one main theme where people turn to seemingly "simple" systems in order to manage complexity; except that these systems manage to produce complex problems, without having to acquire historical cruft, or suffering from any of the usual issues that produce non-essential complexity. There is a trend in programming language design, and a particular language that we will focus on, that are both seemingly gaining popularity today, for their minimalism and supposed simplicity. However, neither is awfully simple in practise; it appears there are good reasons why, and we will give some reasons at the end of this article.