Re:Selecting a programming language can be a form of prematu...
by tinco on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:39AM
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Where do you draw the line? Is GitHub quick and easy software? Is Shopify? Were LinkedIn, Twitter? Are things built on Tensorflow?
I think you misunderstand the scripting language revolution of the mid 2000's. It's not that we suddenly realized scripting languages were the best for quick and easy projects. We realized scripting languages were suitable for a whole lot more than some data processing. We could much more effectively build huge scalable software platforms.
It got so bad that the sentiment flipped, and people like Joel Spolsky had to go out of their way writing blog posts that you could in fact build successful modern web platforms in C#. And then he went building the world's most popular project management tool in Node.js anyway.
This argument is not addressing the claim for general purpose software, only for "quick and easy" software.
To people in this thread: please stop to think before responding to the "wrong point". I think we can all agree that dynamic, scripting languages are more adequate for "quick and easy" software, but this is not what the point of the discussion is. The point of the discussion is, or should be in my opinion, whether it's true that for general purpose software, written by teams, that is not trivial to write by oneself in 5 minutes, that scripting languages are more productive than statically typed, compiled languages.