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That's the most common criticism of the Microsoft ecosystem by far. It's not just being insular, it's that huge swathes of the .NET community insist on being spoon-fed by Microsoft. Th…

It's not a programming paradigm shift, more of a change to how runtimes work. We want to avoid the overhead of kernel threads in servers, and async/await on top of an event loop is a conven…

Is it just me or is the python being taught not very good? See for example this lecture: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... . The prof starts off by saying that intern…

I'm not arguing against Python. Merely against learning yet another language in a domain that the OP has, apparently solved. I can only go by the original post. So, in the context of this dis…

That kind of reaction isn't surprising from people taking an introductory class in Python . Meaning that if you are the kind of people who takes an introductory class in Python , with a teac…

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Heck, look at one of the most popular languages -- Python. Method calls look nice an explicit like def method(self,...). Others have self too (usually called "this"), but it appears there …

> An actor in Erlang is not an object And function with closure and/or with a state passed through and it is an as good as an object. Heck, look at one of the most popular languages -- Python…

> But then I remember that Python is dog slow compared to other languages with comparable ergonomics and first-class support for static typing, and...idk it's a tough sell. Post like these ap…

I would imagine nearly every programmer who has ever used a DAW has thought “this would be cool to have its own scripting language.” They already had Python. Mentioning an architecturally obvious ide…