Comment by tossandthrow 5 days ago
> I have the sense that the author is more interested in grinding axes than in explaining.
People are free to target whoever they want when publishing on the internet.
There is a good chance that neither you nor HN is a part of that target.
> There is a good chance that neither you nor HN is a part of that target.
I mean, I'm at least tangentially in the target audience, as an enthusiast of programming language design, who is very fond of Erlang...
It is the assumption that this is meant as dissemination. there is a lot of material online (especially on GitHub) that is not meant to be read.
It is a valid criticism that it is uninteresting to read, but the core criticism is that this should not have been shared on HN, to which the canonical response is to scroll through and not upvote.
> People are free to target whoever they want when publishing on the internet.
People are also free to criticize whatever is published on the internet. Hypotetically not being a part of the "target audience" doesn't preclude one form such freedom.
I agree with the comment above: the introduction doesn't really "introduce" the reader to the language, it only introduces the reader to the syntactic constructs used in the language. Such introduction would better fit in the "specification" section.