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> Why waste 10x more memory? That sort of question is totally missing the point of why people use these languages, yeah? Languages in the web world don't tend
by bpicolo 9y ago
> Why waste 10x more memory?
That sort of question is totally missing the point of why people use these languages, yeah? Languages in the web world don't tend to be chosen based on memory requirements (or speed as this suggests). Are there cases where you want to think about that? Sure.
People have plenty of reasons they'd want to use Python over Go, and vice versa.
- hasenj 9y agoThe waste in memory is just an additional negative point. "and vice versa" < Sorry, but no. There's no equivalency here. The only reason I would ever use python is for small scripts that I only run on my machine and don't need to deploy anywhere. Maybe 10 years ago Python was an attractive language because Java sucked and C# only runs on windows and there weren't many other good choices. Now there are many expressive languages that are also statically typed and fast. D, Swift, Kotlin, etc.
- bpicolo 9y agoThe ecosystem is a much bigger deal. There's an officially supported python library for every SaaS product on the market, and many libraries that are best-in-class in areas like data science. It takes minutes to write to pdfs, make graphical charts, edit images, and a million other nuancy, minor parts of apps that you want, but don't want to spend a ton of time writing. Java is the only static language that features roughly equivalent levels of support ecosystem wide.