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One advantage is slightly less typing, which might be useful in CLI tools and UI filters. Also, people don't want to bring a full JS interpreter in those kinds
by sesm 2y ago
One advantage is slightly less typing, which might be useful in CLI tools and UI filters. Also, people don't want to bring a full JS interpreter in those kinds of interfaces for various reasons.
- pydry 2y agoFewer characters to write is an advantage but it's an advantage that is more than offset by the disadvantages of a familiar, more powerful language. The philosophy of language terseness uber alles ought to have died with Perl.