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I have to ask: does the author not have the same problem in other languages? If not, why not? Any major language has dozens of libraries that do almost-but-not

• jernfrost 8y ago
  I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language. With Go, e.g. I would not spend much time on this, because it is such a plain language. You just accept there is no fancy way of doing this and move on. With C++ I found it a bit different. Either I mess around thinking there MUST be some way of solving this annoying problem only to realize there just isn't. Other times I find a solution but it tends to turn into a horrible ugly syntax mess, so you abandon it. I've pretty much given up writing anything elegant or fancy in C++. It just turns to shit so quickly. Swift I found fairly straight forward to write. All the typical stuff that get me stuck in C++, never seems to pose a problem for me in Swift. Julia is the language which ought to have thrown me into the Haskell problem described, as you can do a lot of crazy stuff with types and macros. I do to some degree but mostly Julia just does what I want it to do. I guess it is partly down to the core functions being well designed and that despite the flexibility it is still not as magical as Haskell, Clojure etc.