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I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language.

I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language. With Go, e.g. I would not spend much time on this, because it is such a plain language. You just accept there is no fancy way of doing this and move on. With C++ I found it a bit different. Either I mess around thinking there MUST be some way of solving this annoying problem only to realize there just isn't. Other times I find a solution but it tends to turn into a horrible ugly syntax mess, so you abandon it. I've pretty much given up writing anything elegant or fancy in C++. It just turns to shit so quickly. Swift I found fairly straight forward to write. All the typical stuff that get me stuck in C++, never seems to pose a problem for me in Swift. Julia is the language which ought to have thrown me into the Haskell problem described, as you can do a lot of crazy stuff with types and macros. I do to some degree but mostly Julia just does what I want it to do. I guess it is partly down to the core functions being well designed and that despite the flexibility it is still not as magical as Haskell, Clojure etc.

Posted by jernfrost on Sep 3, 2018, 10:55 PM

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I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language.

jernfrostSep 3, 2018, 10:55 PM

I write in many different languages, but I would say this kind of thing depends a lot on the type of language. With Go, e.g. I would not spend much time on this, because it is such a plain language. You just accept there is no fancy way of doing this and move on. With C++ I found it a bit different. Either I mess around thinking there MUST be some way of solving this annoying problem only to realize there just isn't. Other times I find a solution but it tends to turn into a horrible ugly syntax mess, so you abandon it. I've pretty much given up writing anything elegant or fancy in C++. It just turns to shit so quickly. Swift I found fairly straight forward to write. All the typical stuff that get me stuck in C++, never seems to pose a problem for me in Swift. Julia is the language which ought to have thrown me into the Haskell problem described, as you can do a lot of crazy stuff with types and macros. I do to some degree but mostly Julia just does what I want it to do. I guess it is partly down to the core functions being well designed and that despite the flexibility it is still not as magical as Haskell, Clojure etc.

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