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The irony is that a lot of "very popular" PLs are unergonomic for those 99.5% tasks, and sometimes worse when you take into account "best practices", like testi
by dnautics 5y ago
The irony is that a lot of "very popular" PLs are unergonomic for those 99.5% tasks, and sometimes worse when you take into account "best practices", like testing, documentation, CI/CD, version management (the tax rules will change!
But in november for these jurisdictions and September for these jurisdictions ) etc. PLs that are "clever" like pg advocates are often even worse.
- opportune 5y agoExactly. I don’t really like Java but if I were starting a business that required writing a CRUD backend, I would 100% chose a boring popular language like Java over something “smart”. Smart doesn’t scale - if there’s no tooling, bad library support, and no ecosystem, any gain you get by being clever gets erased by needing to reimplement the wheel. In many ways I’d say the language itself is one of the least important factors in choosing a language for a commercial project.
- dnautics 5y agoJava is one of the unergonomic popular languages I'm talking about. I'm never going back to that monstrosity.