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author | Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> | 2019-09-08 16:18:48 -0700 |
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committer | Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> | 2019-09-08 16:18:48 -0700 |
commit | a7b139d0abee855c46ba5c098cb3dbca72d31b81 (patch) | |
tree | 6e66d765e87d550b9138365a0ae2f1557ff0d604 | |
parent | 33aea47851696f578482a665c5630cc1e99830c3 (diff) |
Clarify terminology
-rw-r--r-- | _posts/2019-09-08-Enough-to-decide.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/_posts/2019-09-08-Enough-to-decide.md b/_posts/2019-09-08-Enough-to-decide.md index aaf83f5..f762308 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-09-08-Enough-to-decide.md +++ b/_posts/2019-09-08-Enough-to-decide.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ on, there are many that aren't here and which I encourage you to research. ## C Pros: good performance, access to low-level tooling, useful in systems -programming, strongly typed, standardized and venerable, the lingua franca, +programming, statically typed, standardized and venerable, the lingua franca, universal support on all platforms.[^1] [^1]: Except one, and it can go suck an egg for all I care. @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ Cons: far too big, non-standardized, only one meaningful implementation. Pros: easy and fast to get things done, diverse package ecosystem of reasonably well designed packages, deeply extensible, useful for server-side web software. -Cons: bloated, poor performance, weakly typed, cpython internals being available -to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture. +Cons: bloated, poor performance, dynamically typed, cpython internals being +available to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture. ## JavaScript @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture. Pros: functional but with an expressive and C-like syntax, ES6 improved on many fronts, async/await/promises are well designed, no threading. -Cons: weakly typed, package ecosystem is a flaming pile, many JS programmers +Cons: dynamic types, package ecosystem is a flaming pile, many JS programmers aren't very good at it and they make ecosystem-defining libraries anyway, born in web browsers and inherited their many flaws. |