Re:“Python's batteries are leaking”
by analog31 on Sunday May 19, 2019 @12:38AM
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This question suggests a criterion for what batteries should be included, which is platform dependence. What both Tkinter and IDLE do, is ensure that there is a basic GUI library, and a code editor, that can run on any platform.
Coming from Visual Basic, and similar things (HyperCard, Turbo Pascal), being able to run a program with GUI on both Windows and Linux with no code changes was nothing short of amazing to me. So maybe that's one way to draw the line with batteries, namely to make it so a beginner can get started with Python, with no regrets about which OS they're using. This requires some out-of-box hardware abstraction, where they keyboard, mouse, and display, all effectively count as hardware.
Coming from Visual Basic, and similar things (HyperCard, Turbo Pascal), being able to run a program with GUI on both Windows and Linux with no code changes was nothing short of amazing to me. So maybe that's one way to draw the line with batteries, namely to make it so a beginner can get started with Python, with no regrets about which OS they're using. This requires some out-of-box hardware abstraction, where they keyboard, mouse, and display, all effectively count as hardware.