JAVA.md

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• ++++ Cool as shit

• ++ Fast interpertor spin up

• + Shares the same (yes -> continue / no -> abort) execution model as bash -eux -o pipefail ...

• + DCG is vastly more superior to regex for parsing complex grammar, esp with recursion

• - Poor tooling

• --- Good luck using it in prod

python

• +++++ Legendary stdlib

• +++ Best built-in argument parser of any language

• ++ Excellent tooling

• - Poor pipelining support

clojure

• +++ Beautiful language

• - Shell programming is orthogonal to Clojure's strengths

• -- Slow JVM spin up

perl

• +++ Available almost anywhere bash is

• ++ Cool boomercore language.

• -- Unicode support hidden behind flags, so nobody uses them, especially in shebangs.

ruby

• +++ Most powerful built-in templating of any language (erb).

• ++ Passable stdlib, including decent pipelining & rake (ruby's Make)

• ++ More sane version of perl

• - Working with raw bytes an after thought

nodejs

• +++ Stream oriented + async function*

• ++ Fast interpertor spin up

• --- Stdlib is sucky

powershell

• ++ Access to .NET stdlib

• - Poor tooling

• --- SLOW as hell interpertor spin up for a shell language

fsharp

• -- Enterprisy stdlib

• + Pretty decent tooling actually

haskell

• ++ Beautiful language.

• -- Form over function

• --- Really slow compile time when running via shebang

lua

R

php

• -- Is php

rust

• + If it passes #![deny(clippy::all, clippy::pedantic)], it work good

• --- Only ever going to be used to make build.rs executable

kotlin

• ----- Some how slower than julia at Hello World

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