you can typically write solutions within a scripting language within a fraction of the time that it takes for the same
I think there's something to this, but there's a weird paradox here. You can write code at a higher level in a scripting language and let the interpreter work things out. In theory, this saves a lot of time. But the flexibility also means you can spend hours tracking down an errant comma (I have).
Maybe the best of both worlds is something that does a file-by-file syntax check for you without requiring you to deal with low-level data structures. I don't need my web app to actually be compiled, I just want something to check for what a compiler would check for.
by Scott Stevenson — Dec 26
I think there's something to this, but there's a weird paradox here. You can write code at a higher level in a scripting language and let the interpreter work things out. In theory, this saves a lot of time. But the flexibility also means you can spend hours tracking down an errant comma (I have).
Maybe the best of both worlds is something that does a file-by-file syntax check for you without requiring you to deal with low-level data structures. I don't need my web app to actually be compiled, I just want something to check for what a compiler would check for.