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Why are we still treating dynamic languages as "scripting languages" as if you can't do the same thing one does in Go?
by swah 6y ago
Why are we still treating dynamic languages as "scripting languages" as if you can't do the same thing one does in Go?
- Gene_Parmesan 6y agoSo at this fine grain of semantic detail, making strong statements about differing labels feels a little silly, but I have always thought that the difference is dynamic refers to typing, whereas scripting is usually a reference to the language being interpreted rather than compiled. Dynamically typed languages can certainly be compiled (I think Clojure qualifies here?).
- IggleSniggle 6y agoAnd in that case, what do we make of QuickJS, which compiles JavaScript to bytecode?
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- throwaway894345 6y agoWhat does this comment even mean? I can’t make heads or tails of it.