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I have to believe there's a block of people out there who just assume "nigh-instantaneous compile time" is a bit of a bigfoot. Or maybe they assume that, if yo
by Jetrel 6y ago
I have to believe there's a block of people out there who just assume "nigh-instantaneous compile time" is a bit of a bigfoot.
Or maybe they assume that, if you have that, why wouldn't you make the jump to writing a REPL, since the hard part is done...
Just making some guesses.
- FpUser 6y agoNo , I would not "make the jump to writing REPL". I was addressing this: "Python is superior to C and Rust for most kinds of scripting tasks, given equal mastery of both. It has a REPL, it doesn't have a compile time" To me it makes the impression that you are conflating here, hence my answer about REPL. Technically of course REPL is different from having "no compile time". In any case I do not really consider opinion about Python being the better one for scripting tasks as anything but subjective.
- Jetrel 6y agoAs we mentioned before, those weren't my opinions, just my guesses about other people's opinions.
- wtetzner 6y agoOCaml more or less has both. Very fast compile times, but also REPL support. It however does not have Python's batteries-included standard library. Luckily Opam is starting to make that less of an issue.