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Name another language + tooling ecosystem where you can do ALL of: * Perform automatic refactoring of a 100k+ LOC project and be confident that absolutely nothi
by Too 10y ago
Name another language + tooling ecosystem where you can do ALL of: * Perform automatic refactoring of a 100k+ LOC project and be confident that absolutely nothing breaks. * Reliable edit and continue in the debugger. * Fast incremental compile times. * Easily pull in third party libraries without messing with include-dirs, link-dirs and whatnot, and automatically get the documentation built in and ready for autocompletion.
I won't list all other things you can do but no other popular language even come close to the tooling of Java or C#. C and C++ has too many different build systems and too much lazy evaluated templates and typecasts for the IDEs to handle well. Python, Ruby, JS, PHP...well they are all dynamic so good luck with fancy IDE features.
- TylerE 10y agoDo not go up against Erlang. You will lose.
- jnordwick 10y agoErlang as some pretty dope tooling, but still Java has a much larger selection and some low-level tools that are just fantastic for performance (JMH is one of my favorites).
- tracker1 10y agoSpend a week trying to get the project to actually run on a computer, with a project you haven't touched before...