h8hawk

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1. 91.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   It won't. Scientific computing is not web development, python probably replaced by a saner language, like Julia, but js is not saner anyway. It's little messy language that becomes bytecode of browsers.
2. 92.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   I would like keep js out of data science. Why should anyone like this?
3. 93.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   I don't understand why people bashing self argument. It's part of best design decisions in python. Methods in languages such Java or JavaScript always have hidden argument called 'this'. In js this actually become messy
4. 94.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   This article explain it well: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
5. 95.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   People are using Javascript or python for real production. How those are general purpose and Julia is not?
6. 96.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   Pypy is basically abandoned project. Main version is Python2 and It has poor support for python 3. The latest version They are supporting is python3.5. Beside that even with Pypy they wouldn't be even close to nodejs. Julia is on par
7. 97.▲
   Mypy 0.660 Released(mypy-lang.blogspot.com)

   2 points by h8hawk 8y ago|0 comments
8. 98.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   Thank you. I've looked for this sort of explanation.
9. 99.▲
   by h8hawk 8y ago

   Are there other technical reason's for advocating it, other than your love because it was your first "real" language?
10. 100.▲
    by h8hawk 8y ago

    I don't think so, Guido has a long time history of being against FP, and the core of language is statement oriented rather than expression oriented. Beside that "->" operator in python is already used as return type annot
11. 101.▲
    by h8hawk 8y ago

    Yeah! Making poorly designed and "weakly" typed language with enormous WTF's as a universal language! I think if they put more effort on webassembly, market share and library support for js will have a huge dropout. For mor
12. 102.▲
    by h8hawk 8y ago

    Beside python has pretty awful support for functional programming, I don't get what is purpose of this. Is it just a Facebook for developers? Why anyone should use autocomplete sever in others computer? What is advantage of this over o