I find this to be a poor analogy.<p><pre><code> humans do work
they speak to other humans to coordinate
speaking a different language lowers coordination bandwidth
humans write programs
they write programs in any language to produce any artifact
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I dont see how the method of artifact production relates to coordination bandwidth<p>the purpose of programming languages isn't to facilitate communication with other humans, a source code artifact is isomorphic to a binary artifact, its purpose is to encode a description, like DNA.<p>> few people have had the time to do anything really sophisticated with software<p>ok
The Babel situation, more than anything, is what makes the web so great. We have JavaScript to modify it, but the actual work product is a unified single language that we can express anything in.<p>The rest of computing puts code first, and code comes in infinite varieties. Different languages, different libraries giving us different vocabs, fp vs class based vs ecs for how paragraphs are built, hexagon vs ddd vs other architecture styles for how paragraphs are laid out.<p>Code is all varied. But we uave begun to have something better & greater, that everything can be built out of, and it comes first.