The backlash against scripting languages has begun

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 13 02:57:16 PDT 2016


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 
> stance on the monkey-patching that guy now rues:
>
> "Monkey-patching has, in Ruby, been popular and powerful. It 
> has also turned out to be a disaster. It does not scale, and is 
> not conducive to more than one person/team working on the code 
> base."
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/jsat48$ujt$1@digitalmars.com
>
> That blogger probably wishes he read that quote from Walter 
> four years ago. ;)

"basing themselves on interpreted, slow languages that favoured 
‘easy to learn’ over ‘easy to maintain’."

Yep. Frustration kicks in sooner or later. I always tell people 
not to use scripting languages for bigger or real world projects.


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