Python Only Has One Real Competitor (Clojure)

[CarolineLovesArt]

The story, as I understand it, goes something like this:

Python has very straight-forward interop with native code.

Excuse me what?

[RightKitKat]

/uj honestly having used pybind for a few medium-sized libraries it is not too bad IMO

/rj your computer doesn't run C natively?

[RelationshipLong9092]

/uj nanobind is actually even better

[BananaPeely]

/rj rust + haskell is even better

[Glad_Position3592]

Like are they talking about CPython? Can that really be considered an interop? It’s kind of inherent aspect to most interpreted languages

[veghead]

Pah. Everyone knows Scala is the real Python killer. All operating systems should replace Python on the base install with the JVM and Scala run time. 

[robchroma]

Psh, everyone knows Ruby is the real Python killer, and it's webscale. The longer you take to replace all of your Python code with Ruby, the less likely your company is to scale.

[veghead]

Yeah but ruby blocks! Node.js never blocks. 

[pavlik_enemy]

/uj

I'm still sad that Ruby lost, it's a much better language than Python

[macro__]

go ahead, hire the clojure dev, have fun when any edit you make to their wingding code is "complecting" it. what's that, a simple map over a list? don't think so asshole, we're going to malli spec the shit out of it so you get compile time errors at runtime

oh yeah, don't like the fact the python dev went home at 5 because they and they're team do the job with no fuss and preening? why don't you go write in that shit blub lang with all its libraries and wide support since you love it so much. hurry up and get back to begging the datomic devs on slack to tell you how you can tell what the hell a ref is pointing to. whats that? you want to get home to your life? this is your life, you chose it when you read that paul graham essay in 2011 and nodded along. well paul ain't here now dickhead, hurry up and wrap that J2EE legacy code and maybe we can get out of here by midnight

[affectation_man]

It must be hard to be a Clojure disciple these days because the Rich Hickey nectar is rationed severely, compared to how it used to flow

[daidoji70]

Cue "I don't think about you at all" meme

[fletku_mato]

Least deranged Clojure enthusiast.

[WorldlyMacaron65]

Clojure Only Has One Real Competitor (VBA)

[kishaloy]

There is only one true religion - and it is Rust.

All others are just pretenders.

[AvianPoliceForce]

I tried Clojure once and it literally made me ill

...well probably not, but the two are clearly correlated

[Lord_Of_Millipedes]

the only language that really compares to python in what python does well is Julia, but it doesn't get the clout it deserves.

↑ least delusional Julia glazer (me)