New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One

An anonymous reader writes "What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS? Is it JavaScript? Is it PHP, HTML5, or something else? Why choose? A new programming language developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is all of those and more — one of the world's first "polyglot" programming languages. Sound cool? It is, except its development is partially funded by the National Security Agency, so let's look at it with a skeptical eye. It's called Wyvern — named after a mythical dragon-like thing that only has two legs instead of four — and it's supposed to help programmers design apps and websites without having to rely on a whole bunch of different stylesheets and different amalgamations spread across different files.

CSS?

[Anonymous Coward]

"What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS?"

Why yes, I just love writing VoIP systems in CSS.

You have n programming languages...

[Anonymous Coward]

You have n programming languages. You think "That's to many, let's invent a programming language that combines all of them!", and then do so. You now have n+1 programming languages...

Re:Shit summary

[binarylarry]

Yeah and can you imagine the horrific shit sandwich that would be a combination of CSS, HTML5, PHP and JavaScript?

666 Mark of the Techno Beast. It's like some shit Ghostbusters 2099 would be tasked with stopping.

FTFY

[QilessQi]

"Web applications today are written as a poorly-coordinated mishmash of artifacts written in different languages, file formats, and technologies.

"...and here's another one!"