Over my career I've worked with some very different languages - PHP (and it's cooler cousin Hack), C, C++, Objective C, JavaScript (and it's cooler cousins TypeScript and Flow), Java, Haskell, Python, Rust, Dart, Lua,…
The current wisdom in creating web apps is to either have a fat backend component that serves mostly slim HTML pages, or a fat frontend component that requests data from the backend through a slim…
I’m always excited to try out new languages. I’m not an expert in the field, but my two cents are that: You cannot optimize for both expressiveness and speed of execution at the…