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by toomanydoubts 1585 days ago
I'm not sure. If we're talking about turing complete languages, aside from performace, you can get all kinds of features in all kinds of languages. It's actually a matter of how expressive, safe, idiomatic and well designed they are for everyday usage.

When discussing a language which is defined by caching values, we sure do want to see how that looks like in practice.