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> it doesn't interest me enough to choose it over C. Why? If it's as fast as C but has the benefit of sugar, why not use it? > People are (for good reason) ve

by MrDom 12y ago

> it doesn't interest me enough to choose it over C. Why? If it's as fast as C but has the benefit of sugar, why not use it? > People are (for good reason) very suspect of dependancies. Not web developers. :D Although we should be. > And most people are suprised to hear that I probably wouldn't use it for anything serious either. Again, why not? C performance but easier to read code sounds like a good reason to use it for something serious. What are the downsides?

comex 12y ago
It is not as fast as normally written C due to the dynamic typing.
- musername 12y ago
  that's not necessary for the API, is it?
  - comex 12y ago
    The API allows 'var's to be treated as dynamically typed, so sure it is. More to the point, if you tried to change it to be statically typed, it wouldn't be expressible in the same nice-looking way in C.