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More than 10 years ago I was asked to provide some insights about Java and Python for internal use in our lab. Despite IBM involvement in Java at that time, bot
by JPLeRouzic 10y ago
More than 10 years ago I was asked to provide some insights about Java and Python for internal use in our lab.
Despite IBM involvement in Java at that time, both Java and Python were see as possibibly immature by my boss.
My own conclusion was exactly what you wrote.
In fact during the Internet bubble there was a recruiting crisis, and Java (Python was not mature enough at that time) was exactly what was needed: A language for undergraduate people that produces good results, was easy to read and maintain, while forbiding "innovative" but often buggy code.
- rusk 10y agoAnd these days its also about the tools that a strongly typed well structured language enables. I can refactor many things in IntelliJ in a trice. I've heard Bjarne Stroustroup bemoan the fact that the C++ community "can't have nice things" like this because so much of the community still holds on to legacy kludgy practices like cpp macros.