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Re:Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python by p3llin0r3 on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:36PM (#17049281)
Dynamic languages tend to be more popular. Examples:

- ruby

- python

- Javascript

I was on a quest for a good, well supported, statically typed scripting language for quite a while, and in the end I defaulted to python.

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Re:Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python by umanwizard on Saturday May 12, 2018 @12:53AM (#17052544)
C, C++, and Java are incredibly popular too.
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Re:Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python by p3llin0r3 on Saturday May 12, 2018 @12:43PM (#17054836)
True, but all of those languages are very heavy-handed and have ancient and arcane build-tools and package management ( If they have it at all )

For me, I was looking for a language that is appropriate for both scripting and slightly larger web application projects.

Scripting / Web application development is NOT a great use case for C/++, and I feel Java is a bit heavy handed to be used for a scripting language.

I tried out Golang but did not end up liking the language.

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