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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by chraebsli@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Stop comparing programming languages

Python is versatile
JavaScript is powerful
Ruby is elegant
C is essential
C++
Java is robust

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They also thought the best thing to take from Python is that version 3 should not be backwards compatible with version 2

[–] sparkle@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think that's good when the objective is to improve the language. One key thing that holds many languages back is that they're stuck with historical baggage, and it can be pretty difficult to replace/remove "outdated" stuff without breaking everything.

I do not want to be stuck using Python 2, or Scala 2 (although there exist people who use Scala 2 instead of Scala 3).

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

Where I’m working we’re heavily using Spark, which kind of blocks us from upgrading. There seem to be ways to get Scala 3 to work, but we also have old terribly written baggage code no one understands. Just upgrading between 2.12 to 2.13 was a journey.