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I love Python, but it's a rubbish article I regret to have upvoted. > Python is robust This paragraph does not feature a word about robustness. There are ment

I love Python, but it's a rubbish article I regret to have upvoted. > Python is robust This paragraph does not feature a word about robustness. There are mentions of speed and scalability and some sort of benchmark showing a case where Python is faster than Ruby or PHP. Conclusion: "It's also very fast". The rest is less terrible but does not mention any of Python's shortcomings.

johnsoft 14y ago
Are there any widely-used languages that aren't robust? That seems like kind of shallow praise.
- mercurial 14y ago
  Depends what you call robust. If you mean "strongly typed", PHP and Javascript come to mind immediately.
  - johnsoft 14y ago
    By robust, I mean the language/compiler has a strong test suite and the runtime is known to work reliably in production settings. I've heard horror stories about Sun's HotSpot JIT crashing frequently, but that was what, 10 or 20 years ago? Now that I think about it, Scala might be a modern example of that, but I haven't kept up with how they might have improved.
    - mercurial 14y ago
      In this case, yes, real-world languages have a solid runtime/compiler. Though I'm surprised you have issues with Scala, at least the runtime part should be rock solid, given that it runs on a very much battle-tested JVM.
    - Genmutant 14y ago
      PHP has a test suite, but it's released with over hundred tests failing. See here: http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_5 http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_5