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Javascript the language seems to have evolved much more than Python despite CPython's very simple implementation.
by eatonphil 5y ago
Javascript the language seems to have evolved much more than Python despite CPython's very simple implementation.
- munificent 5y agoHence my point about "massive funding from giant corporations in order to support an implementation". :)
- eatonphil 5y agoWell almost all the JavaScript language innovation was syntax sugar and was implemented as transforms before the browsers implemented it. I think JavaScript devs mostly were fine to keep using transforms indefinitely and it's just been more convenient that the browsers have moved to implement it. Python could have done this easily too but evolving as a language just isn't as big a priority (not that I'm saying it should be) and that's completely (or mostly) disconnected from their backend implementation decisions.