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Programming Languages

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This is the current Lemmy equivalent of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/.

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This community is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Somebody woke up and chose violence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I already know Python, for one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is the biggest factor.

Also Julia's ecosystem is in infancy in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why python while $subjectively_better_thing is so much better?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

bc dynamic typing is for nubz LOL

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Not as many libraries and other tools for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why use Julia when Rust is so much better?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rust code is lot more verbose and much harder to learn bc ownership 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In what ways do you see Julia as better?

Better for what?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better question: Why Fortan and not Julia?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

runs better on punch cards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm happy with Scala3 - whose syntax is easy to read like python, but compiler and tooling now smart, fast and safe, and also compiles to JS for the web.