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Once you combine those into "use one statically typed language" it narrows down the field to just a handful of languages, though. The "use one language" stipula

Once you combine those into "use one statically typed language" it narrows down the field to just a handful of languages, though. The "use one language" stipulation requires that the language is actually appropriate in a wide variety of situations, and has libraries to back it up in all of those. Like, you can't use Rust as an everything-language, it has limited libraries and is designed for a specific domain. Between the two requirements, I think Java, C#, and TypeScript might be the only languages that qualify.

jcelerier 5y ago
> Between the two requirements, I think Java, C#, and TypeScript might be the only languages that qualify. says jtolmar in a browser written in C++
- Epskampie 5y ago
  “ the language is actually appropriate in a wide variety of situations, and has libraries to back it up in all of those”
  - jcelerier 5y ago
    ..yes ? if you can write a whole KDE (https://kde.org/ https://kde.org/) in C++ what is it not appropriate for and what libraries is it lacking
    - twic 5y ago
      Are there any good full-featured C++ web frameworks? Comparable with Rails, Django, Spring, .net, etc?
      - jcelerier 5y ago
        Drogon (https://github.com/an-tao/drogon https://github.com/an-tao/drogon), Cutelyst (https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/ https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/), Crow (https://github.com/CrowCpp/crow https://github.com/CrowCpp/crow) come to mind
    - kaba0 5y ago
      There is a very real distinction between high and low level languages. And C++ is a nice low level language, but you wouldn’t write a CRUD app in it that changes requirements multiple times a week, because it is simply non-trivial to refactor, due to low level details leaking.
- jtolmar 5y ago
  Although C++ is statically typed, all of the article's arguments in favor of static typing equally apply against C++. Also, the way you phrased your comment is needlessly rude, to the point I almost didn't bother replying. If you actually want to learn why people have the opinions they do, you should consider being more polite.

jcelerier 5y ago

> Between the two requirements, I think Java, C#, and TypeScript might be the only languages that qualify. says jtolmar in a browser written in C++

Epskampie 5y ago
“ the language is actually appropriate in a wide variety of situations, and has libraries to back it up in all of those”
- jcelerier 5y ago
  ..yes ? if you can write a whole KDE (https://kde.org/ https://kde.org/) in C++ what is it not appropriate for and what libraries is it lacking
  - twic 5y ago
    Are there any good full-featured C++ web frameworks? Comparable with Rails, Django, Spring, .net, etc?
    - jcelerier 5y ago
      Drogon (https://github.com/an-tao/drogon https://github.com/an-tao/drogon), Cutelyst (https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/ https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/), Crow (https://github.com/CrowCpp/crow https://github.com/CrowCpp/crow) come to mind
  - kaba0 5y ago
    There is a very real distinction between high and low level languages. And C++ is a nice low level language, but you wouldn’t write a CRUD app in it that changes requirements multiple times a week, because it is simply non-trivial to refactor, due to low level details leaking.
jtolmar 5y ago
Although C++ is statically typed, all of the article's arguments in favor of static typing equally apply against C++. Also, the way you phrased your comment is needlessly rude, to the point I almost didn't bother replying. If you actually want to learn why people have the opinions they do, you should consider being more polite.