Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?

• SrTobi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Actually the language is quite small. The features, it has, are just quite powerful and have huge synergies so that it seems that you have a lot of complex features. It has a lot of weird corner case stuff, but most of that is because of the jvm and other languages have that too unfortunately.

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  • interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a good point about the synergies, something like eg. a type system that’s expressive enough to be Turing-complete is going to have some effects. You’re right that it might just feel like a “kitchen sink language” due to complexity of the features it has, but then again I suppose it’s sort of one and the same where a language’s complexity comes from.

    But it’s no Swift, at least; now that language really does have everything and the kitchen sink.-

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