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  > It's thinking algorithmically in enough detail, with edge cases, fallbacks, error handling, etc, that most people struggle with.
And this is why we need better languages, not better editors.

Python was the last real language to bring prepackaged solutions that are easy to use and cover (some) edge cases to reduce development overhead. Adding a use-specific framework, such as Django, often takes care of the remaining 80%.

I'd love to see a new language or framework that makes adding new features - not features that the framework devs created but rather real new features - easy to code would be a boon to development.




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