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by viraptor 5481 days ago
Might be not completely offtopic if I asked here: is there some reason array, resource and object were never folded into one type (object)? It seems like array and resource are kept separate just because it's done this way internally (with array and resource super classes). Why can't resources or array be native-code-backed objects like some modules in python?

It seems like many special cases were left over from old versions and the inertia prevents any change.