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>Why do I want a scripting language to glue together that is designed to be good a glueing things together? A good example might be calling legacy libraries li
by na85 5y ago
>Why do I want a scripting language to glue together that is designed to be good a glueing things together?
A good example might be calling legacy libraries like BLAS and LAPACK. These are battle-tested libraries that represent probably hundreds of millions of dollars of developer time, but Fortran is annoying for IO-heavy tasks (at least in my opinion).
I like that I can spin up a scripting language like python and call into LAPACK for performance and correctness, but still have modern and ergonomic networking or what have you.
- mhh__ 5y agoAgain, D is designed to make calling into C code easy within the same program you were working on. The idea that you can't have a language that is both expressive and fast is just Stockholm syndrome from C++ being unergonomic. Check it out on the website, you can write an RPN calculator in D in less lines than a Haskell implementation last time I checked, all while checked to be pure by the compiler. Not only would a scripting language be slower because the compiler would be a hack without access to LTO and not have a proper type system etc., It would he a complete waste of time.