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by bakery2k 10y ago
>> Part of the problem with Python is (that Lua doesn't share) is that things you use all the time can potentially shift between two loop iterations, e.g. for x in os.listdir(PATH): y = os.path.join(PATH, x)
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by bakery2k 10y ago
JavaScript is interesting because the language itself may not have a Unique Selling Point. Its most important feature is its ubiquity, a property of its ecosystem.
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Ask HN: What is the Unique Selling Point of each programming language?
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Does anyone know the details behind what happens to the thread-based server at 11:30? The response time for small requests "drops off a cliff" due to a single large request, apparently due to "the implementation of the GIL&qu
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David Beazley – Python Concurrency from the Ground Up: Live – PyCon 2015(youtube.com)
2 points by bakery2k 10y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable command-line tool?
8 points by bakery2k 10y ago|13 comments
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by bakery2k 10y ago
I would certainly be interested to learn about better language and interpreter design. Do you think anyone will ever use the lessons learned about interpreters and write a "better next time" implementation of Python , or do you o
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by bakery2k 10y ago
all operations on Python collections like lists and dicts, are atomic, making those collections safe to share and modify across threads. Most python code in the wild that utilizes threads makes use of those guarantees. So you either use fi