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What evidence exists that definitively says JavaScript is better than perl? Or golang is definitively better than python. do people bother to gather the eviden
by buboard 7y ago
What evidence exists that definitively says JavaScript is better than perl? Or golang is definitively better than python.
do people bother to gather the evidence though? like perhaps performance, number of bugs per coding day, quantity and quality of output etc.
- muzani 7y agoIs evidence helpful? At our workplace, it's clear that Cordova hybrid is worse than maintaining both iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin, in terms of bugs, development time, hiring/retention cost, user experience. But we still do it. Sometimes it's just that there's less unknowns involved. A bug in Cordova might take a week to fix. A bug in Android or iOS might take 1-2 days. Statistically it would be a no brainer. But bugs are dreadful things and there's the possibility that it could take much longer than usual or go unnoticed.
- crimsonalucard 7y agoYou can't really say one piece of evidence is better than another piece of evidence unless you can quantify it in a meaningful way. Agile points are an example of something quantified in a way that isn't meaningful, while performance timing on an algorithm can be meaningful. Many things in programming languages like a for loop vs. recursion cannot be quantified meaningfully.
- ebcode 7y agoSome people do. Check out the works of Victor Basili and Barry Boehm.