Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others

Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by jdminhbg on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:24PM (#18280504)

> And yet the number of times I've seen beginners completely discouraged or even give up programming forever because they have conda and pip and brew and pyenv installed and can't run a basic script after 4 hours of trying because environment mess-up is ridiculous.

Beginners? I've been in the industry for a decade and the same applies to me. The Python environment situation is a trainwreck.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by Hbthegreat on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:32PM (#18280541)

I share this feeling. Going to python for the first time as someone that has developed software for 16+ years was incredibly more difficult and time consuming than I would have hoped. I still don't understand how it has become the default go to language for teaching new coders when it has quite unintuitive syntax / packages and setup steps.

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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others by nomel on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:18PM (#18285337)

> unintuitive syntax

I don't see this often. Could you point out some syntax or concepts that aren't clear, in Python?

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