and to improving the usability of languages because its good enough like it is and why bother making it better!

in open source, there's low regard for good documentation -- documentation isn't running code so it's a distraction, plus its hard to write b/c no one knows how

and user-friendliness is seen as synonymous with powerless, useless, etc.

so language after language has the most abysmal features, and tools, that are hard to use. and one of those persistent problems is boilerplate

but its not just opensource devs who are to blame here, because the research about this stuff isn't the best either

i mean, there's lots of research on techniques, sure, but academics aren't exactly fantastic at communicating these things in ways average devs understand

the routes into the techniques of PLT are rather limited and sparse

and on top of that, there is also a general tendency for PLT research to avoid the empirically-linked dimensions of theory, such as the issue of boilerplate and similar things