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I don't think Java 8 is that bad, it's just mediocre. It's fast and has a good ecosystem. Yeah, Python is fun, it seems effortless to do stuff there compared t

I don't think Java 8 is that bad, it's just mediocre. It's fast and has a good ecosystem. Yeah, Python is fun, it seems effortless to do stuff there compared to Java. For example, "a = [1]" vs "List<Integer> a = new ArrayList<>(); a.add(1)" - and then you have to compile and run, no REPL to try it out. Recently I've been using Julia, it's maybe the most fun I had with a language. Some things are much easier to do than in Python - and it's 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster.

vosper 9y ago
Since you mentioned Julia - are you using it for math or math-related programming, or doing something else? It looks interesting to me, but I'm a web dev (Python on the backend) and don't have much use for most of the math stuff, so I don't know if it's suitable.
- AsyncAwait 9y ago
  The language itself is general purpose, but its community is targeted towards scientific computing, so the ecosystem for web dev isn't (yet?) there.