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>>> 4. Support for Scripting:You shouldn’t have to learn one language for writing scripts and another for applications. This allows for rapid development in scr
by greyman 16y ago
>>> 4. Support for Scripting:You shouldn’t have to learn one language for writing scripts and another for applications. This allows for rapid development in script-mode which can then can be compiled into an application, if required. <<<
This is indeed a very limited worldview. (I wanted to write something more harsh, but then I told myself to stay polite).
In my opinion, if the constraint is to learn only one language (without specifying why), it should be general purpose language, which allows to produce both scripts and full gui programms, maybe something along the lines of C, C++, C# etc.
- alnayyir 16y agoMy first impulse, if I'm told I have to pick 'one' language, is to fall back to my desert island languages, C and C++. I'm incredibly productive in Python, but if I have to pick 'one', I'd rather work from first principles. It's not like I couldn't make a node.js clone in C/C++ from scratch, if I had to.
- stcredzero 16y agoI'm thinking it might be nice to make a late-binding optional-typing VM language with Go's general syntax. (For which a fully-typed code base would compile into Go.)