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Re:Taichi Lang by schemescape on Thursday March 09, 2023 @07:42PM (#35088999)
It’s not even the language that causes the most friction, it’s the runtime, libraries, package manager, build system, foreign function interfaces, and on and on…
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Re:Taichi Lang by nixlim on Thursday March 09, 2023 @07:55PM (#35089101)
This, more than anything and it doesn't only apply to the "new" languages. I spent the last year picking up basic Common Lisp and Elixir just for the fun of it. As "languages" they are great, but their ecosystems made me realize how spoiled I am working in Java.
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Re:Taichi Lang by cjohnson318 on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:41PM (#35089787)
Hundred percent. You're not competing with Python, you're competing with Pip.
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Re:Taichi Lang by jakobnissen on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:49AM (#35091233)
It wish that was the case. Then Pkg would have already won, seeing that it's so obviously superior in every possible way.
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Re:Taichi Lang by maleldil on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:33AM (#35092374)
Pip is the wrong comparison; it should be with PyPI. The package ecosystem is Python's killer app.
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Re:Taichi Lang by cjohnson318 on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:26AM (#35096534)
Ah, you're exactly right.
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Re:Taichi Lang by randrus on Friday March 10, 2023 @08:07AM (#35093875)
It’s not the language, it’s the leverage. I came to python in the 90s because of the white space (I was young and impressionable) and stayed for the flexibility and wealth of packages and projects out there.
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