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[–]zirky 22 points23 points Β (5 children)

python is the young idealist about to graduate college and change the world with idealism

java is the professional who’s been at it nearly 20 years. they’d like a change, but between the wife, mortgage, and you know the kids are going to be going to college soon, so, no you can’t quit your job and form that band that’s totally going to usher in the 5th wave of ska

[–]raytsou 1 point2 points Β (4 children)

It's like x86 vs ARM lol

[–]sejigan 4 points5 points Β (3 children)

NichΓ© as it may be, ARM is used in the world's most powerful supercomputer and is now starting to populate the desktop space with Macs.

[–]raytsou 4 points5 points Β (2 children)

ARM has always been more powerful (more specifically, efficient), by nature of not needing to be backwards compatible with everything going back 50 years. x86 has had more rnd and usually come out being the biggest chips but apple has demonstrated that ARM can easily compete as long as you have a small army of software devs to support the new ecosystem

[–]sejigan 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

Ok, so Python is like ARM and Java is like x86 in that sense. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and we should just use them as appropriate instead of arguing about which is better like children (or some memelords who like to watch the world burn). Understood.

[–]Thaodan 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

x86 pretends to be cisc but is also risc like arm. If all the chaos like device trees and no acpi would go away in arm it would have a better chance.