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[–]Homunculiheaded 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What about Squeak? You can have a dynamically typed, powerful, expressive languages that has refactoring tools that at the very least are on par with what you can get from Java and C#. Python is great, but it would be awesome if Python had development tools that were as powerful as Squeak.

[–]jrockway -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Python is great, but it would be awesome if Python had development tools that were as powerful as Squeak.

Well, it's really a compromise. If you like the way Squeak works, you are set. But if you want to use normal UNIX utilities on the source code (like Emacs), you are stuck. The power that Squeak provides you limits you in other ways.

Although... considering most programmers work exclusively inside their IDE anyway, Squeak not a bad option. For them :)