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Re:Microsoft rewrote Q# compiler in Rust by antonvs on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:34PM (#36426230)
The issue is what they're educated in. It's not generally programming languages.
Re:Microsoft rewrote Q# compiler in Rust by patrec on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:33PM (#36426658)
What makes you think so? If you've got a background in programming languages, maybe you'll roll your eyes at Guido not getting reduce or tail recursion, or CPython's unsophisticated runtime and under-specified/messy semantics, or whatever, but I'm kind of struggling to see why you'd be particularly down on python compared to other languages that (in the average case) have non-negative utility for software development.
Re:Microsoft rewrote Q# compiler in Rust by antonvs on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @08:48PM (#36426763)
I mentioned Python simply because it was ranked highly in some of these kinds of surveys, even though it has quite a few well-known problems as a language. It demonstrates that ranking in such surveys is not necessarily correlated with the capabilities or fitness for purpose of the language.

In some ways, Python is in fact worse than many of the mainstream alternatives - for example, it's not unusual for people to look to rewrite Python systems in some other language because of performance issues at scale. Same (if not worse) goes for Ruby.