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0 pointsfijiaarone3y ago0 comments

What we need from a programming language is to make medium complexity things, at worst, medium difficulty.

I don’t care about hard problems, and easy problems.

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Erlang/OTP does medium difficulty things, i.e. very large applications with good fault tolerance and QoS, really well.

But it's a very different niche. Perl and Ruby scale to mid sized applications quite well, but above that fault tolerance and QoS become hard.

cutler3y ago

I think with languages like Perl, Ruby and Python you just need a static, compiled language to migrate to at a certain scale, preferably with similar features. Kotlin and Scala seem to be currently the best options for Ruby, Python and OO Perl. For procedural Perl maybe Golang.

singingfish3y ago

Rust gets large amounts of inspiration from perl so don't forget that one.

nextos3y ago

Wikipedia quotes Ruby as an influence, but not Perl, citing this source: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

Still, Perl might have influenced Rust via Ruby. Otherwise, do you have a reference for Perl's direct influence on Rust?

dragonwriter3y ago

Python has a number of similar, static, compiled languages that are embeddable in Python code (notably Cython and taichi).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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nextos3y ago

Erlang/OTP does medium difficulty things, i.e. very large applications with good fault tolerance and QoS, really well.

But it's a very different niche. Perl and Ruby scale to mid sized applications quite well, but above that fault tolerance and QoS become hard.

cutler3y ago

singingfish3y ago

Rust gets large amounts of inspiration from perl so don't forget that one.

nextos3y ago

Wikipedia quotes Ruby as an influence, but not Perl, citing this source: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

Still, Perl might have influenced Rust via Ruby. Otherwise, do you have a reference for Perl's direct influence on Rust?

dragonwriter3y ago

Python has a number of similar, static, compiled languages that are embeddable in Python code (notably Cython and taichi).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse