Do you have reading comprehension issues that you mistake examples for explanations and are blind to the actual explanations surrounding the examples?
> I mean if I want Lua, I use Lua.
That I know about Lua doesn't mean I want Lua. Hell, that I wanted lua in the past doesn't mean I'm closed to replacing it with something else. Given how well-known Lua is in the space, "think lua" is a rather good example.
Who knows? But could you point exactly to where it says why I should care about this language? Let's say I want to convince a cto to adopt it, what would be the edge one could/would gain? Maybe it has some exceptional libraries? Or GC pauses are deterministic, or whatever.
I mean this landing page is/should be their 2 minutes sales pitch.
It’s the most voted submission on HN right now. We gather here because we like this stuff.
And here you are wasting your time accusing us of being everything that’s wrong with tech.
The thing you fail to understand is that we aren’t in this for the money or the validation or the status.
We simply like fiddling with computers, languages, etc.
Computers were my hobby way before they were my job.
It's great that you like playing with computers, languages, etc. Nobody is minimizing that. But, many people who see a new computer language want to know what is unique about it.
It is completely valid to ask, "why should I use Janet (the language)?" Many people are familiar with or expert with many programming paradigms and have written their own DSLs or general purpose languages. Others are expert in fields that intersect with languages and want to know if there is specific applicability to their domain.
Seeing a new language that doesn't solve a unique problem or solve a problem in a novel way is often a complete non-starter. For that reason, many people expect a page on a new language to state the purpose of the language, even if the purpose is, "I wanted to play with writing a langauge." That's cool, too.
I'm pretty sure that is why several people have asked that question.
> It is completely valid to ask, "why should I use Janet (the language)?
Note that that isn't the question they started with (and would likely have provoked a different response). Perceived tone matters very much with a one-sentence question.
