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		culi 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Killed Perl? IMO javascript was a valid alternative. Easy to learn and easy to run. That's the main things needed for academic work Python had a history of tooling/libraries that made it well ingrained into academia

maleldil 5 months ago [–]

Javascript didn't have the same FFI story with C/Fortran as Python. That's what allowed libraries such as numpy, scipy, pandas, etc. to flourish.

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