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People start using python because of the syntax (and the ecosystem built around it ofc), changing the language doesn't solve the problem.
by asutekku 4y ago
People start using python because of the syntax (and the ecosystem built around it ofc), changing the language doesn't solve the problem.
- Jensson 4y agoDynamic languages aren't just about the syntax, they are also about copious amounts of implicit casts and slow but flexible data structures to make working with them possible. Python has a very good set of data structures and implicit casts, that is the main reason it is popular. Compare to jagascript for example... Anyway, making python fast while keeping all those casts and data structures is very hard, Javascripts casts and data structures are bad for the programmer but very good for the interpreter so is much easier to optimize which is why it runs orders of magnitude faster.