Why do programming languages have frameworks rather than just putting all these features directly in the language? This question was originally answered on Quora by Travis Addair.

Why do programming languages survive? A pair of Princeton and UC Berkeley researchers look at why some programming languages succeed and others fail. They posit that failure is attributable to the ...

You might assume that a programming language whose primary purpose was to help almost anybody become computer-literate would be uncontroversial—maybe even universally beloved. You’d be wrong.