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> Julia is better imo Can we please stop saying X language is "better" than Y? It really does not make any sense. Both languages were designed with very differ
by ibraheemdev 6y ago
> Julia is better imo
Can we please stop saying X language is "better" than Y? It really does not make any sense. Both languages were designed with very different goals in mind. Each of them is a good fit for their respective use cases, but saying Julia is "better" than Rust makes no sense.
- ajkjk 6y agoCompletely disagree. There's a tendency these days to say that because you can't quantify better-ness, things can't be better. Which isn't true at all; betterness can be subjective or heuristic or approximate. Of course, saying something is better than something else is always prefixed with an implicit "I believe that...", so it's fine to argue with it. But that doesn't mean it's an illegitimate thing to say.
- darthrupert 6y agoNo, definitely not. There are so many programming languages and they are all usable for >90% of all the programming problems out there. So there's significant overlap. Some languages are better: more conducive to popularity; safer; more conducive to not wasting resources; nicer to work with; more expressive. We don't have reliable methods of objectively measuring these metrics, but they do exist. Rust, I believe, has a pretty high aggregate score.