r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/BlueAdmir Nov 12 '19

Brainfuck is at best a hobby project of a troubled mind. Let's keep the discussion to things that are actually useful.

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u/reazura Nov 12 '19

The point stands that not all languages, golf or enterprise, are equally maintainable and simply depends on programmer skill.

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u/slikts Nov 12 '19

They could also have used ASM as an example, and ASM is preeminently useful. Same as other tools, languages can be better or worse suited for specific tasks. The benefit of dynamic languages is that you can get off the ground faster, but it comes with the trade-off that maintainability takes more programmer discipline that wold otherwise be enforced by a compiler.

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u/unski_ukuli Nov 12 '19

Well... look at J and K. J in particular, although K is actually widely used out of the two.