Stop comparing programming languages
- Python is versatile
- JavaScript is powerful
- Ruby is elegant
- C is essential
- C++
- Java is robust
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Not Scala and Rust. They are my beloved, my sweethearts, my knights in shining armor.
Ok Rust does have some major issues, but not Scala...
Oof, slow compile times to target, of all things, the JVM? Implicit methods?
Some(null)? Function call syntax where the difference between a tuple argument and a sequence of non-tuple arguments can be determined by whether or not there's a space before the parentheses?There are definitely some major issues with Scala.
They also thought the best thing to take from Python is that version 3 should not be backwards compatible with version 2
I think that's good when the objective is to improve the language. One key thing that holds many languages back is that they're stuck with historical baggage, and it can be pretty difficult to replace/remove "outdated" stuff without breaking everything.
I do not want to be stuck using Python 2, or Scala 2 (although there exist people who use Scala 2 instead of Scala 3).
Where I’m working we’re heavily using Spark, which kind of blocks us from upgrading. There seem to be ways to get Scala 3 to work, but we also have old terribly written baggage code no one understands. Just upgrading between 2.12 to 2.13 was a journey.