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https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/java.html Consistently twice as slow, with memory usage between 2 and 400(!) times larger. Java is slow and bloated compared to native…

> Almost no libs aren't avail on 3 now. What an awkward way to say "most libs work on Python 3 now"... Why is that? I suspect it's because saying it clearly doesn't deliver the mes…

> :P However, I welcome you to prove me wrong by creating the language to end all others. Yes yes, I'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, I hope you'll keep up the great wo…

> Then ignore the metaphor and focus on the longer paragraph that succeeds it. :P Your second paragraph had a bunch of economic pseudo-theory about what sells... Maybe that explain…

> but the library it ships with is going to privilege one over the other This really just seems to me a matter of no one having done it right yet... Following your example (which I…

> a passenger vehicle, dump truck, submarine, and airplane The problem with using metaphors to make your argument is we generally have to argue about whether the metaphor is even a…

>> A single language needed to solve all problems is a fallacy. > Has that been proven and do we have pointers to any peer reviewed papers on that? I agree with you and can't stand…

There are several things you could take away from Lisp. I don't think you caught the good parts yet though. My idiot instructor for comparative programming languages set me back ye…

Fast compile times are cool, but I've never heard anyone say they liked programming in a language that Wirth created. The possible exception is Delphi as a Pascal derivative, but t…

Pretty much every 20 year old codebase is a mix of terrible stuff. The exceptions are rare and usually involve a strong handed dictator who is willing to make cleanups from time to…

I really wanted to use Rust for numerical/scientific computing tasks, but it's kind of miserable for it. I didn't get hung up on the ownership things that all of the Rust zealots t…