Re: Preferred language?
Jean-Roch HUET <[email protected]>
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Python. It has potential. More than others. Le 27/03/2015 13:39, Sergio Tortosa Benedito a écrit : > Well I'm writing this e-mail because I want to know which languages do you know/prefer since I might write some tools. > > *Python: pretty much industry standard > *Ruby: meant to be fun, higher DSL capabilites > *Lua: fast,small and also DSL capable (with some trickery) > And now some other which are not so known but interesting: > *Nim: Python + Pascal with the highest grade of metaprogamming I have ever seen > *Crystal: Attempts to be compiled ruby. > The interesting thing about crystal is it's typing system which is a mix between dynamic and static, it's dynamic because var=1; var="hello" works,it's static because the variable's types are known at compile time. > > As anyone may infer, one feature I find interesting it's metaprogramming so we can write a small DSL (Domain Specific Language) and simplify code. > > > Now my opinion: From the list the one less suited for the job it's Lua (it lacks some syntax sugar,also lacks standard libraries with support for some basic operations, and even though they exist, they are external). Python's limitations in metaprogramming may make a disadvantage. > > Anyone having feedback or any suggestion feel free to answer. > > (PD: I'm sending this here because I find the devel list it's pretty much dead) > > --Sergio > > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users >