XS programming language

“Noble goal in itself, useful for some cases, but utterly irrelevant for many (most?) projects.”

“But I have no interest in some anonymous project that has no provenance and no chance of longevity.”

“The polymorphism looks a little half-missing as well (checker.c)”

“No human cares about including such an irrelevant detail as the lines of code in helper functions.”

“const is identical to let at runtime but signals intent.”

“the language itself checks all the important boxes”

“But no real content about the language design, motivation, or what distinguishes it from other languages.”

“Then I read the comments here saying its ai slop, I lost all my interest now.”

“I'm just going off of a few "smells"”

“The type system which the language actually uses is not consistent yet”

“XS seems to have quite a few modern niceties, such as traits, generics, closures, OOP, pattern-matching, and even algebraic effects.”

“All the copy is entirely generated. I can't find any actual human associated with this thing.”

“a GIL in 2026 feels like a massive weakness”

“Indexing uses bytes and len uses codepoints? Are you mad?”

“I saw no killer feature that would push me from go or python to it.”

“the most jarring thing for me here was really only the {- -} block comments”

“You can improve it by giving a reason for people to want to adopt it.”

“Trying to fish out from a multi-page reference what makes your language unique and what gripes with other languages it solves is tedious”

“there is no excuse in implementing the core toolchain of a new language in a memory-unsafe manner in 2026”

“language design based on what people want to achieve rather than creating the most generic zoo of primitives is underexplored”