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@ mleku
2025-05-10 20:55:49
when a programming language either only adds features and not changes them, or doesn't change much, this is the sign of a good dev team
it's total fiction that languages need to change quickly, that is a total disrespect for the programmers. Rob Pike wrote an article about the "10 year challenge" a while back, and asked "can you still build a 10 year old repo that hasn't been updated since then with the latest version of your toolchain" (paraphrased) and with Go this is true, probably it is also true with php
i know that it's not so commonly used nowadays, almost every idiot is running nodejs on servers now but this is like, uh, maybe 2x faster than python and go is 5x faster than that and c++/rust/java manage maybe 6x faster, but if you consider the stability of the language as important for especially open source but also long-term security for anyone who wants to not spend inordinate amounts of money on devs constantly upgrading for a constantly changing language, then hah. yeah... java is out, c++ is pretty much out, nodejs is a total shambles, rust is pretty bad also, and python, psh i'd rank it a little above nodejs but totally pathetic performance