Clase 2 - Semicolon Wars

 Class 2 - Semicolon Wars


The opinion of Article of Semicolon Wars


For me, this article presents one of the most important questions not just in computer science if not in most areas of knowledge. This is the balance between innovation and consensus in a certain area of knowledeg. Here we can see two counterpoints facing each other, if we force consensus then there is no invocation and if everyone takes their own path we can never work together and invocation kills innovation. This is why the important question is where is the balance.

Personally, I push more to a more regulated invocation where we have to prirotize to improve our current languages before creating new ones. I have arrived at this conclusion by my own experience learning to code. The hardest part for me was not to learn a certain language if not to decide which one to learn. Not just that if not the volume of languages I feel the need to learn. This represented a huge threshold that I think is holding back a big community of people from getting into software development. So by doing this we are creating many tools but we won't have no one to use them. So we are limiting the real value of code that is the creativity of humans. This is why I think we need more consensus on what tools are the backbone of worldwide development.

Also in favor of language innovation, I think there is still a very big opportunity to grow. At the end of the day, new areas of Knowledge are being created constantly and we can create languages based on these specific areas. Instead of placing our energy changing and arguing which is the best Language today, let's build now languages for specific areas ok knowledge. This way we can always keep improving our languages but maintain a consensus on what language is used for what body of knowledge. 

That way we get the best of both worlds!!!



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