Reply to Re: Let's make a cross platform editor for everone to use! (CALLING ALL C++ PROGAMERS!)
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I like that you wrote it in python because it is a much stronger language than Java and faster too.
Python and Java are equivalent in terms of computer power, it's just that Python allows you to express many things more succinctly than Java. I don't think Python is faster than Java though.. if you have too many function calls (regardless of what they do) then CPython becomes really slow which isn't a problem in Java. This is due to the dynamic lookup of functions in Python.
I will continue to write my editor too because we need an editor written in C++ if we want a lot of features. As good a language as python is, it is still a scripting language.
The distinction between programming and scripting language is really vague. It can be argued that Java is also a scripting language because its bytecode is interpreted with an interpreter (i.e., it is not compiled). Also, Python and C++ can both do the same things, it's just that C++ will be faster.
Python and Java are equivalent in terms of computer power, it's just that Python allows you to express many things more succinctly than Java. I don't think Python is faster than Java though.. if you have too many function calls (regardless of what they do) then CPython becomes really slow which isn't a problem in Java. This is due to the dynamic lookup of functions in Python.
I will continue to write my editor too because we need an editor written in C++ if we want a lot of features. As good a language as python is, it is still a scripting language.
The distinction between programming and scripting language is really vague. It can be argued that Java is also a scripting language because its bytecode is interpreted with an interpreter (i.e., it is not compiled). Also, Python and C++ can both do the same things, it's just that C++ will be faster.
