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> See for example you can write safe code in C therefore rust is pointless (yes but rust makes it much easier to write safe code) Isn't it usually the other wa

> See for example you can write safe code in C therefore rust is pointless (yes but rust makes it much easier to write safe code) Isn't it usually the other way around? "This would be safer if written in rust". > Or you can do machine learning in JavaScript so python is useless Said no one ever. The author also elaborates why (according to him) X is preferable over Y (mainly simplicity), and even if he didn't there's value in comparing tools if one is on the fence of switching but afraid of loosing compatibility. Entire websites exist with that sole purpose.

edude03 3y ago
>> Or you can do machine learning in JavaScript so python is useless > Said no one ever. I want to reply to this point because I have some relevant & interesting experience here. I've done a fair amount of consulting for companies who have a scenario that goes like this: - founder starts business in their free time, in a language they know well, as a monolith. - founder gets a few customers and decides to scale the business - founder decides they need to use "AI" to solve some business problem - founder hires a person who is great at solving that particular problem. - that person wants to use python (of course they do) but the monolith is not in python so various tensions ensue. - the founder (or someone else on the engineer team) inevitably says "you can do ML in $LANGUAGE_WE_CHOSE, why use python? We didn't chose python because $REASONS_PYTHON_SUCKS. You'd be surprised how often the language they chose is javascript and how often the reason not to use python is that they can't share code between the client and server. So unfortunately that example wasn't pulled out of nowhere