On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 14:12:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 13:48:04 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
It's an argument for Java over Python specifically but a bit
more general in reality.
A fun read, and I see his POV. It is a pity Python does not
include some static typing, but I think he undervalues the
access to a REPL! I think Swift is being a bit innovative here
by having a REPL built into the debugger. Good move, wish I had
a project that was suitable for it (but requiring ios8 makes it
DOA for now).
For speed… I dunno. In the cloud you can run Python on 10
instances with little effort, so 10x faster is often not so
important if development is slower. Cloud computing has changed
my perception of speed: if you can partition the problem then
Python is fast enough for low frequency situations…
I rather pay for just one instance.
Honestly, I could never see an use for Python outside shell
scripting.
And I was an heavy user of it during my stay at CERN, and later
companies, for build and test automation.
