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Isn't a language being "powerful" mostly about having comprehensive libraries ("import antigravity" and such)? And then of course "safe" means you can't expres
by tbrownaw 2y ago
Isn't a language being "powerful" mostly about having comprehensive libraries ("import antigravity" and such)?
And then of course "safe" means you can't express things you shouldn't want to express, like buffer overflows or arithmetic overflows or SQL injections, or these days prompt injections.
- bobnamob 2y agoIme, language “power” is usually used to describe the expressivity and flexibility of the language itself. As an extreme example, Starlark isn’t a powerful language, it isn’t even Turing complete afaik. This is advertised as a positive attribute for a build description language (I don’t have an opinion, never used it myself). Conversely, C would classify as a powerful language even considering how barebones it is from a “feature” perspective . Poke any memory however you like is a pretty powerful power