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Comment by paulddraper

21 days ago

From the link:

> Key features of Lily:

> Built-in template mode

> Embed/extend in C

> Single-inheritance classes

> Exceptions

> Generics

> Algebraic data types (with Option and Result predefined).

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andsoitis  21 days ago

That’s what. Not why.

  • nine_k  21 days ago

    The why: because Lua, Python, JavaScript, Janet, etc lack many or all these features. And each of these features is known to make life easier for a human programmer.

    • dismalaf  21 days ago

      Looking through that list of features, Ruby (the dynamic language I know best) has all but 1 built-in (and the other can be added with Gems). I'm guessing Python probably has them all too (but I don't know Python that well). They're pretty common. So the why still isn't clear.

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