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What language you have in mind? All the languages I have known or used are drastically unsuited for one or other thing. So they all seem not worth using.
by geodel 8y ago
What language you have in mind? All the languages I have known or used are drastically unsuited for one or other thing. So they all seem not worth using.
- lmm 8y agoI mostly work in Scala these days. But really any ML-family language is fine for everything. Garbage collection is not the barrier to writing system tools or soft realtime that it's reputed to be (the fact that people advocate Go for those use cases is proof of that). (The JVM startup can be a bit slow for scripting one-liners, particularly if you're running them on every file in a directory or some such. There was a time when I would switch to Python or Bash for those, but I realized I was wasting more time making mistakes in those languages than I ever saved at runtime)