Lambda the Ultimate

A nice article that describes tradeoffs made in choosing a PL for a domain-specific field.

Available here with hackernews and reddit discussions ongoing.

Even though I'm not a big fan of Haskell, I'm pretty excited about this. It represents a trend where PL is finally taking holistic programmer experiences seriously, and a move toward interactivity in program development that takes advantage of our (a) rich type systems, and (b) increasing budget of computer cycles. Even that they are trying to sell this is good: if people can get used to paying for tooling, that will encourage even more tooling via a healthy market feedback loop. The only drawback is the MAS sandbox, app stores need to learn how to accept developer tools without crippling them.