HACKER Q&A
📣 marceloabsousa

What set of features make a programming language advanced?


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"?


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
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


👤 qppo
Higher order abstractions and more general control flow, usually.

👤 arthev
Good Metaprogramming tooling