On 2024-05-28 23:54:46, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2024 at 23:16:42, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > I've looked into the newer languages like rust and go and Julia, and
> > they don't work for me.
> >
> > As far as Julia, it's buggy as hell.
>
> Hm, references?
>
> > With go and rust, these languages seem much broader than C, Python,
> > Lua, old school Turbo Pascal and the like.
> >
> > What I mean by "broader" is that you need to memorize a whole lot of
> > stuff because a whole lot of stuff is built into the language instead
> > of just being createable in the language.
>
> Isn't that supposed to be one of the advantages of them - that you don't have
> to build stuff for yourself, but it's built in, and is (presumably) done well?

You mean like C has such a huge amount of libraries written in it that a
lot of other languages, especially new ones, wrap lots of common C
libraries? So you are still calling C, there's just some extra glue for
the new languages.

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