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Python should just have optional compilation built right into the language. Likewise, modern low level languages should have syntactical conveniences and optio
by AbsoluteCabbage 4y ago
Python should just have optional compilation built right into the language.
Likewise, modern low level languages should have syntactical conveniences and optional whitespace.
It’s 2023. We don’t need to keep having this war.
- messe 4y agoScala seems to be taking this route with Scala 3. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on it. The JVM is very underrated on HN, and I’m far from a Java fanboy (I’m basically a Zig evangelist).
- mrkeen 4y ago> The JVM is very underrated on HN I don't like it for my use cases, but whenever I read about it on HN it's supposedly the best-tooled, finest artifact of performance engineering ever built.
- fulafel 4y agoI'm guessing you know, but as a reminder to readers, Python does have compilation built in. It works similarly as Java - source code is compiled to a bytecode that is then run by a virtual machine. A difference is that for executing that bytecode, CPython virtual machine have JIT native code generation.