The available libraries, operating system, and hardware platform pay a bigger role than the programming language. Often the choice of language follows the tool chain and frameworks that fit with the intended program.
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But, Haskell..., it's so well thought out, so evolved, the best of all functional programming in one, the ability to handle infinite lists, the lazy evaluation, the strict type checking, the compiler that catches whole classes of bugs, the curt syntax, the ability to breathe it like pure thought, the clarity like maths...
Okay, sorry, I better leave the room too.
Reasoning about memory use is kind of hard though.
Sorry, Clojure is newer and fancier.
Better if you need the ability to unintentionally shoot yourself in the foot.
And love reading ten pages of Java stack trace.
The only people who say that are mentioned in Forbes.
That's why we use JavaScript on the front end, JavaScript on the back end, and you can streamline it even more by using JavaScript for the db layer too. After all, if you have too much data to be reasonably parsed in a single .json file, you are probably just architecting wrong.
Every time you get over 200k lines of JSON you gotta split it into another app, so you can webscale.
I miss the old tts voices and now everything is ai generated garbage :( Bring back the robot voices!
The language is as important as architecture and stuff.
Pick the right language for the right task.
Performance? Don't use python.
Everything else? Use python because everyone does.
/s
I despise python syntax.
That’s a strong opinion. What’s the problem with python syntax?
as someone who uses python daily: what is syntax? /s
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The programming language promotes a thinking model and the ecosystem defines a modus operandi.
Of course they matter.
Ngl changing paradigms can have the problems do a 180.
I hate leetcode but it's surprisingly fun to code certain questions in prolog when final outcome with error checking is like 15 lines.
i cowode exclusively in pythowo
It's amazing how much the NSA's github page is comprised of Python.
Makes sense that they specialize in python, so many good math/crypto libraries.
i'm not too far from an nsa building (never really looked into what they do there) but i can throw some thigh highs over the fence for y'all if it helps
Programming languages, much like the jackass in the middle, are tools. Different tools are for different things. The right tool for the job can make your day. The wrong tool can make you question your entire career.
Right... And the best tool for every job is of course Rust.
Embedded? Rust!
Web Frontend? Rust!
Web Backend? Rust!
idk what orher kinds of programming exist...
Game dev? Just force Rust into it, despite being quite mediocre for the job, there's so many engines written in Rust. ECS is the answer to everything!
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