That it's an interpreted language rather than a compiled one. Bytecode and interpreted langs get the Toy Lang treatment. At least SQL has floating points.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

So, it's an almost useless dimension with misleading names? Yeah, it's a good "political compass".

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago

That's... a really dumb definition. And why is C# right in the middle but Java's towards obsolete and toy lang? They both compile to byte code and are overall extremely similar.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Javascript is compiled, just in time.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

This guy JITs 👆

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Nearly my entire company's infrastructure is written in Python and Go so I take offense (even if I would prefer to write anything else other than Python, mostly because I like proper typing )

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

What's the difference between interpreted and compiled?