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Re:Python Is Eating the World by stephen_g on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:59AM (#20673104)
Yeah, I'm a bit sick of Python. We have some internal utilities written in it and while developers could manage all the dependencies and everything, we kept having problems with getting everything working on the machines of our electronics techs.

Gradually pretty much everything has been rewritten in C++ (with Qt GUI framework). Way easier to be able to have a setup program (using free InnoSetup) that just extracts the eight or so DLLs required in the same folder as the EXE and that's it.

We just use Python for a bit of prototyping and data crunching here and there now.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by icebraining on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:52AM (#20673389)
> Way easier to be able to have a setup program (using free InnoSetup) that just extracts the eight or so DLLs required in the same folder as the EXE and that's it.

You can do the same with Python.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by stephen_g on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:04AM (#20673725)
Yeah, we tried all sorts of ways to do it. Couldn’t get it to work satisfactorily with the particular libraries we were using.
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