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This whole "expressive vs. performance" is a false dichotomy. Languages like Scala and Haskell are performant like Java and expressive like Python. Not to menti
by chadrs 12y ago
This whole "expressive vs. performance" is a false dichotomy. Languages like Scala and Haskell are performant like Java and expressive like Python. Not to mention the work being done on JIT compilers by V8/HHVM/PyPy that are helping to close the performance gap for dynamic languages.
- BenoitP 12y agoI am maintaining at the moment some Scala code I did not write. Sometimes you wish for less expresiveness.
- swah 12y agoA couple years ago there were several people complaining that is was a write-only language. (Of course, others said that it was a matter of educating your devs about when not to use some features...) When I first tried it, the slow compilation killed it for me (not a problem for Clojure because a connected Emacs makes for a killer setup...)
- nickbauman 12y agoClojure too. Very fast. Very readable. Very expressive.