On 7/23/2015 2:22 AM, Chris wrote:
It's one thing to list "nice features", and it's another thing to use these features in production code. As a code base grows, the limitations become more and more obvious. Thus, I would be wary of jumping to conclusions or hailing new features as game changers, before having tested them thoroughly in the real world. Only time will tell, if something really scales. I've learned to wait and see what people with experience report after a year or two of using a given language.
It is very true that many features look good on paper, and only time and experience reveals the truth. There are a lot of programming features that fail the second clause - like implicit declaration of variables.
