Do everything in Java…

[via Digitalmars-d]

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 think the main benefit of prototype based dynamic languages 
like javascript is forward-compatibility and mixed type 
containers. By being able to "patch" the prototype you can make 
IE9 support new functionality by emulating newer features like 
"classList"… That's pretty nice. Java on the browser turned out 
to be a disaster…

> This stood out for me:
>
>
> !…other languages like D and Go are too new to bet my work on."

I did not find that odd, they are not perceived as stable and 
proven. Go is still working on finding the right GC solution.