Ask HN: What set of features make a programming language advanced?

4 points by marceloabsousa 6y ago ↗ HN

Reading the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077992 it seems that people have different ideas on what it means for a programming language to be "advanced".

Given that most languages are Turing complete, what really makes a language "advanced"?

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verdverm 6y ago ↗

I honestly prefer Golang which took the minimal approach instead of all the coolest PL features. The language is so much better for this choice.

Check out https://cuelang.org for futurology

qppo 6y ago ↗

Higher order abstractions and more general control flow, usually.

arthev 6y ago ↗

Good Metaprogramming tooling