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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by ledauphin on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:09PM (#26032252)
the JVM is an incredibly heavyweight runtime compared to CPython. I don't think we're going to find the next beginner-friendly language coming out of the most professional runtime in human history.
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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by valenterry on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:12PM (#26032629)
True, but I don't think that is what the OP was taking about. The language itself is rather independent of the runtime. Scala compiles to native code or Javascript as well.
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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pbourke on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:17PM (#26032305)
> incredibly heavyweight runtime

The apps may be heavyweight, but the runtime was designed to run on set-top boxes 25 years ago.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by jaytaylor on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#26032558)
The JVM is definitely memory hungry (excluding cherry-picked examples such as 'set top deployments' or the Java Ring from the 90s), moreso than any other language runtime referenced in this discussion.
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