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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by azangru on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:01PM (#15588382)
> Javascript misses most of the expressiveness of Python and Ruby.

Could you please give examples of expressiveness of Python or Ruby that Javascript lacks?

Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by marcosdumay on Monday October 30, 2017 @04:59PM (#15588835)
You can't change the rules interpreting your source code so that the parser will expand a small command into an entire program, or that it will read a more fitting DSL that does not resemble your original language.

You can not inspect an object and change its type or the set of available properties based on some calculation.

You can not run some code in a controlled environment separated from your main code.