Ask HN: What set of features make a programming language advanced?

4 pointsby marceloabsousa6 lat temu3 comments

Reading the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077992 it seems that people have different ideas on what it means for a programming language to be "advanced".

Given that most languages are Turing complete, what really makes a language "advanced"?

3 comments

verdverm6 lat temu

I honestly prefer Golang which took the minimal approach instead of all the coolest PL features. The language is so much better for this choice.

Check out https://cuelang.org for futurology

qppo6 lat temu

Higher order abstractions and more general control flow, usually.

arthev6 lat temu

Good Metaprogramming tooling