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Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by Sawamara on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:46PM (#17411202)
Note to commenter: you can design a language to never change a function's signature, in which case that language loses the "dynamic" and "scripting" part (okay, maybe just the dynamic part).

Nothing wrong with having ultra-dynamic languages, but you will inevitably trade speed for quirky code in cases like that.

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Re:What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language by burfog on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:09PM (#17411383)
So the restrictions needed for performance also eliminate many causes of unmaintainable messy code and runtime errors?

This is an easy decision.

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