Do everything in Java…

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

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.