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Comment by gcanyon

20 hours ago

What language is “just as productive but isn't going to lock us into abysmal performance down the line”?

What makes that language not strictly superior to Python?

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nazgul17  18 hours ago

Loose typing makes you really fast at writing code, as long as you can keep all the details in your head. Python is great for smaller stuff. But crossed some threshold, the lack of a mechanism that has your back starts slowing you down.

  • gcanyon  16 hours ago

    Sure, my language of choice is more flexible than that: I can type

       put "test abc999 this" into x
   add 1 to char 4 to 6 of word 2 of x
   put x -- puts "test abc1000 this"

    But I'm still curious -- what's the better language?