Am Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:30:49 +0000 schrieb "Cassio Butrico" <[email protected]>:
> What criteria do you take into consideration for the choice of a > programming language. > and why? does not mention what language would be, but what > criteria led them to choose. In a start-up: - known and been used by many developers - low potential of running into unsolved issues - rich eco-system with a potential solution for anything I planned - lots of free/open source solutions to get started without a big investment first - works as well for programmers on Windows/Linux/OS X - minimizes internal bike-shedding In other words Java. :) The only bike-shedding I ever had was weather we should write getID or getId. One says "ID" is the correct abbreviation of identification, the other says the field's name is "id" and camel case rules dictate "getId". Personally it just comes down "fun to work with" and my bias towards maximum efficiency and static checking through the compiler. D ranks very high here. + templates, CTFE and UDAs are fun to work with; it is easy to do meta-programming with these tools + if needed also works as a "better-C" + can use efficient C libraries without conversion layer + dynamic linking allows for small native executables and memory reuse of already loaded read-only segments of phobos2.so. + lots of static checking and template constraints + removes friction between systems by defining long as 64-bit and character arrays to be in Unicode encoding - incompatible ABI between compiler vendors requires 3 installations of the same lib to do testing with each - inline ASM syntax also diverges between vendors - GC implementation and efficiency issues - being flexible, safe and efficient at the same time is sometimes a liability; e.g. File.byLine buffer reuse issue, Java taking the freedom to offer inefficient operations on all containers to keep them interchangeable. Before D I used Delphi. It is IMHO the best programming environment for efficient, native GUI applications on Windows. It comes with integrated compiler, linker, debugger and that sort of stuff and the GUI designer is integral part of the IDE. Most other GUI designers feel like or are an external tool with no interaction with the code editor. -- Marco
