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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by dmurray on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:17PM (#20193236)
> I think the big big result from this study is: "Python: half the size !".

> A dynamic language like Python is better here, 2x better.

I was surprised by how small the LOC benefit was from using the dynamic languages. As someone who typically reaches for Python, I'd use a statically typed language (Go or Java, most likely) much more often if I expected only twice as many lines of code. In practice I feel the same project takes 3-10 times as many LOC and that pushes it to where it is more difficult to maintain and understand.

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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by galaxyLogic on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:34PM (#20193282)
I have the same experience with Java. But I would have expected languages that have type-inference like Haskell, Scala and OCaml to do much better. But maybe their advanced features in fact make programs written in them harder to understand, which slows down development. Don't know.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by tigershark on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:11AM (#20193952)
I don’t think that you can consider people with 2k locs of experience in Haskell highly competent in that language.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by mpoteat on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:20PM (#20193241)
The Python developer also added a lot of extra features. A MVP might be half again the size.
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Re:Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python,... by trishume on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:25PM (#20193252)
Note my half the size estimate was after estimating the amount of code dedicated to extra features. The raw line count is only 0.7x the size of our non-test line count. Although my estimate of how many lines it would have taken without the extra features has very wide error bars.
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