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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - A Language Is Much More Than A Language</h1>
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2019-06-24
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/languages/">#languages</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/community/">#community</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/ecosystem/">#ecosystem</a>
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<p>Picking a programming language is much more than just picking the words that
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will generate a code. They come with a community, a leadership, an ecosystem
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and a thread the binds them all together.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>Programming languages, in essence, are simply a bunch of keywords that make
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things "go". But besides those keywords, they also bring their community, the
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way the leaders deal with the community, the tools created by the leaders or
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community to deal with the minutiae of creating a system, the way those tools
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interact with each other, and a lot more.</p>
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<p>While a language may have a simple syntax, it may be that the ones controlling
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the language actually don't give two shits -- if you pardon my French -- to
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the community. They focus on solving <em>their</em> problems, not the community
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problems<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#1">1</a></sup>.</p>
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<p>Or maybe the community has duplicate tools -- which is not a problem -- but
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that developers of each tool don't talk to each other. Or worse: They simply
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refuse to look what other tools are doing, which could be used to improve
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their own<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#2">2</a></sup>.</p>
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<p>And maybe that third language is not as simple as others, but the leadership
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is always discussing things with the community, being transparent on their
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decision, allowing the community to discuss the future of the language and
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even different groups building tools decided to merge efforts to give the
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community better tools.</p>
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<p>That's why you can't "pick" a language by its syntax alone. That's only the
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surface of what the whole of a language encapsulates and if you ignore the
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other elements in it, you may find yourself with a cute language in a
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community that is always fighting and never going forward.</p>
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<p>And picking a language for something <em>above</em> the syntax is even worse.</p>
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<div class="footnote-definition" id="1"><sup class="footnote-definition-label">1</sup>
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<p>Yes, this is common, even in larger communities. And yes, I've seen the
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leadership ignoring requests from the community and, sometimes, just
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ignoring all the hard work the community did to supply the missing bits
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because they didn't like it.
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<sup class="footnote-reference"><a href="#2">2</a></sup>: Again, I've seen this before: There was a language that didn't come with
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a build tool bundled. The community created a tool, which was widely
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adopted. Later, a new build tool appeared and, in one of the notes, the
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author of the new tool mentioned a feature. The community came and asked
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"The previous build tool did something like that, what's the difference
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between that and your tool?" And the answer was "I never used the first
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tool." So, basically, the community ignored whatever the community was
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using.</p>
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/monitoring">Learn To Monitor</a>
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/outside-project">Don't Mess With Things Outside Your Project</a> >>
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