Is it re-inventing the wheel or perhaps just trying to build better spokes?
By making the spokes optional...
wut?
I'm sure over the next ten minutes, Zn will be the next big thing - with former C and Fe2O3 developers demanding megabuck salaries, whilst working from the home of their university dorm rooms.
It claims it's easier to write, read and understand. So find any new language that does not make this claim? From Lua to Swift, React to Rust, when you need a language to do difficult stuff then, it gets complex quickly. Under the hood Zn can be a wrapper around C++
wut?
Hey, the "easier" it is to learn , the more people you can pay less to learn/use it and be "productive". Great for new projects or rerwiting old projects that will now be cheaper to "maintain" - until the next "easy-to-learn" language comes out !
You're right about that. One good reason those apparently "easy" languages get hyped is because they are promising to reduce development costs, which many business owners will buy without a second thought.
Oddly/funnily enough, then comes Rust, which gets almost equally hyped, but is one of the most elitist programming languages I've ever seen.
That may not be so odd after all. Dumbing down the masses gives birth to more inequalities and the raise of a more influent elite, with less and less room for anything in between.
The same can be more generally witnessed with education. Many western countries have been dumbing down their curriculums, witht the idea that would improve equality of chances. In the end, all it does is lower the value of degrees, increase competition and increase elitism.
Just a thought.