On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 14:07:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
I don't think Python ever will replace C++ or Java, but it is
actually a decent language when you add type annotations.
Fortunately PyCharm supports type annotations in comments which
makes Python2.7 much more acceptable when
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 10:41:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
Of course not, neither was Python intended to replace languages
like C++ or Java. You mentioned projects that are successful
and use scripting languages.
I don't think Python ever will replace C++ or Java, but it is
actually a decent
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 10:29:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
[snip]
That a service is run in a certain language is no proof. I've
an old homepage that was written in PHP. It works, you can add
to it. But is it easy to maintain? Sure Google have loads of
coders who can maintain even
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 09:59:47 UTC, Chris wrote:
So why then do we have Go, C# and Rust?
I believe we have Go because C++ was stagnant, but C++14 and
beyond has become more favourable and Go is pushed into a
speciality niche: light weight servers.
We have C# because Java was taking
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 07:09:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 09:57:16 UTC, Chris wrote:
"basing themselves on interpreted, slow languages that
favoured ‘easy to learn’ over ‘easy to maintain’."
"Easy to learn" often correlates with "easy to maintain". I
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 09:57:16 UTC, Chris wrote:
"basing themselves on interpreted, slow languages that favoured
‘easy to learn’ over ‘easy to maintain’."
"Easy to learn" often correlates with "easy to maintain". I think
you are referring more to static typing vs dynamic typing.
Sure,
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 07:31:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
He mentions Swift, Rust, and Go as his hopes at the end, too
bad he doesn't include D:
https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39
He'd probably be happy with D, particularly given Walter's
He mentions Swift, Rust, and Go as his hopes at the end, too bad
he doesn't include D:
https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39
He'd probably be happy with D, particularly given Walter's stance
on the monkey-patching that guy now rues:
