Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by pcthrowaway on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:40PM
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> And I can't think of anything in the ruby language itself that is implicit over explicit
This is surprising to me. I love ruby, but it embraces implicitness more than any other language I've used. method_missing, monkey patching internals, and other types of metaprogramming make things very implicit at the interface level
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by lmm on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:03PM
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Scala's implicits are a lot less unpleasant because the type system means that you (and, perhaps more importantly, your IDE) know exactly where they're happening.
This is surprising to me. I love ruby, but it embraces implicitness more than any other language I've used. method_missing, monkey patching internals, and other types of metaprogramming make things very implicit at the interface level