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Having used it some, and watched others use it more, I'm struck by the commonality that the most steadfast adherents of the language confuse typing with product
by michaelcampbell 6y ago
Having used it some, and watched others use it more, I'm struck by the commonality that the most steadfast adherents of the language confuse typing with productivity; "The code flies from my fingers!"
Well, sure, but the code I don't need to write in the first place because of well used and vetted libraries, or higher level abstractions, is pretty cool too. It just isn't as keyboard clackyclacky.
- djstein 6y agoThis is how I feel. I need to deploy applications not rewrite Django/Rails/Spring/etc (and all the associating tooling) for the hundredth time. The performance boost argument is a joke when we have horizontal scaling and and multithreading.
- threentaway 6y agoBut not everything is a monolithic REST web app. Sometimes you have many different components -- from CLI apps to serverless functions -- and having a lean but powerful stdlib is amazing, especially with builin type safety, consistent lining, and cross-platform native binaries easily under 10MB.