Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)
by cm2187 on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:59AM
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From that point of view I agree.
The other thing is tooling. There are lots of hardcore developers to whom even syntax highlighting is too much distraction, let alone error checking, auto completion, etc.
Well... To say the least I am not one of them. In fact to me, a large part of the simplicity of a language resides in the interaction with the IDE, the feedback it gives you on what's legal and what is not, where you may have a bug or an ambiguity, what can I do from there, etc. Dynamic languages defeat advanced and proactive tooling. And to me it makes them actually quite hard to work with, not self-discoverable, and all-in slower to develop. The time not spent writing a class or a return type ends up being spent on the reference page of the library (after you checked this is the correct version) checking what are the arguments of a function, etc.
The other thing is tooling. There are lots of hardcore developers to whom even syntax highlighting is too much distraction, let alone error checking, auto completion, etc.
Well... To say the least I am not one of them. In fact to me, a large part of the simplicity of a language resides in the interaction with the IDE, the feedback it gives you on what's legal and what is not, where you may have a bug or an ambiguity, what can I do from there, etc. Dynamic languages defeat advanced and proactive tooling. And to me it makes them actually quite hard to work with, not self-discoverable, and all-in slower to develop. The time not spent writing a class or a return type ends up being spent on the reference page of the library (after you checked this is the correct version) checking what are the arguments of a function, etc.