Silverware wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 8:54 pmWeakly Typed languages tend to be a lot faster to get something working in.
While Strongly Typed languages tend to run that thing a lot faster once it's written.
Quite. I initially chose JavaScript to quickly prototype some game ideas, figuring I'd have to rewrite it in Java for speed later. (Stop laughing! ) But I found that, with careful design and some effort to use the language well (per browser implementation), JavaScript can be fast enough on most platforms to just write the game in it. (Packaging for distribution is a different kettle of fish; I'm just talking about the basic game here.)
I thought I was going to need a saw and a lathe; turns out the saw works pretty well.
Also, I'm sort of wishing Brendan Eich would see this conversation and drop some Official Knowledge.
Hyperion wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:28 amPretty sure this whole back and forth about coding standards now ranks as one of the most heated discussions in forum history, more salt and snark here than any thread on politics or religion But I suppose we can all agree that all politicians in general are just plain awful, definitely worse than java, definitely worse than flash, almost as bad as clients who want to be involved in the development but don't really know what they want.
Very well said.