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Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by scarygliders on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:32PM (#12313947)
Respectfully disagree. I've been writing full-on applications using Python and Qt4 which are well over 100 lines of code.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by satysin on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:55PM (#12314179)
That's cool, we are just different is all. I use Python for automation tasks that require more than what I can do with Bash/Batch/PowerShell but don't warrant a full write/compile/deploy process. If your job is working in Python then sure you are going to use it way past the limits of what I would use it for.

Things are a lot nicer these days than 10 years ago though with PyCharm, etc. it makes managing a Python project so much easier.

Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux by dagw on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:05AM (#12319200)
Me too. And personally I'm somewhat conflicted as to whether or not it's a good idea. On the one hand I love python and use it for virtually all code I write (that doesn't have to run in a browser) and I'm quite convinced that for what I'm doing it's the most efficient language for me to use. On the other hand I have found myself on more than one occasion really wishing python wasn't quite so dynamic when working on large python code bases and if I was starting a new large desktop application today I'm not sure python would be my first choice. There really is something to be said for a better/stricter type system.