Python 3 can revive Python

Re:Python 3 can revive Python by goldfeld on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:57AM (#7802934)

Given that the functional programming story in JavaScript is much more developed, "vastly better language" may be true as long as you only consider the object-oriented side of it.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by Derbasti on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:09AM (#7802972)

How is it "much more developed", without providing generators, coroutines, or comprehensions?

Just having to use functions to emulate all of these (and many more) is not what functional programming is all about.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by oleyb on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:34AM (#7803047)

ECMAScript 6 has generators, and they are already available in Node.js.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by 1ris on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @03:55AM (#7803397)

Javascript seems to go the opposite way of python: instead of ironing the warts out, it adds them. The DOM-API is nonsensical and ugly? Why not add language features so we can implement it in pure JS? Sounds like a great idea.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by mikegirouard on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @05:24AM (#7803610)

While I agree mostly with your point, I think the DOM example isn't going to work. The DOM is a spec and doesn't really have anything to do with JavaScript.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by anton-107 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @10:27AM (#7804641)

The DOM API has nothing to do with JS.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by JeremyBanks on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:53AM (#7803543)

How does that relate to ES6 generators?

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