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Interesting but I find myself confused. There is not really much discussion about what kinds of implications these metrics might have in practice and what the l
by jchw 7y ago
Interesting but I find myself confused. There is not really much discussion about what kinds of implications these metrics might have in practice and what the limitations of this analysis are. Obviously the goals of programming languages vary, and outside of esoteric languages few really strive to be very terse. It seems at least a bit odd to me , then, to make value judgements based on this.
Hate to be a wet towel, since it is interesting. But does it actually mean anything?
- apk-d 7y agoWhen it comes to picking criteria to compare languages with, performance and succinctness have the advantage of definitely having a large impact on developer productivity/happiness (same thing tbh) while being (relatively) easily measurable. Having recently jumped ship to a language/runtime that gives up to several orders of magnitude of performance speedup while maintaining similar verbosity, I appreciate the many opportunities this opens. I can write "lazy" code that pretty much always runs (way) faster than the stuff I used to carefully optimize. Perhaps the last metric I'd be interested in is the a number of bugs in the average codebase, and while I've seen language comparisons for that, I'm not sure whether to believe that they're accurate.