So which language had it right from the start? is there a language that has a very low rewrite status?

poncho_romero 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think Elixir is a good candidate here. It's small, coherent, and composes well, and (at least to my understanding) the authors consider the language finished, with no new major features planned.

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bbkane 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd particularly like examples of statically typed languages that "got it right" (since I love me my types)

	▲	galangalalgol 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ocaml maybe? Multi threading didn't seem necessary and introduced the possibility of data races.

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maccard 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s whataboutism - no language is perfect, but given when go released it’s fair to hold them to a higher standard than languages what were designed 25 years earlier.

As an aside - D, Zig, Rust, even typescript got most of the lessons learned from C right

	▲	blanched 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm not familiar with D, but Zig and Rust are well-known for continuously evolving. Zig has the (in)famous "Writergate": https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24329 And besides Rust's high count of RFCs, there are things like async (I'm not complaining about it, but its an obvious large-scale "change"), module system changes, etc. (To be clear, I like both languages a lot. But I wouldn't call them slow moving or right from the start.)
	▲	Maxatar 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		D literally can't even maintain backwards compatibility between minor version updates not to mention a big part of the D community left when D reinvented itself with D2. Among languages it's probably the one that is constantly in a state of flux.