Python Is Eating the World

Re:Python Is Eating the World by vturner on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:49AM (#20673369)

Thanks for posting. I've wondered if it's just me or does anyone else want to leave software engineering because of Python's dominance. There's no arguing against it either because as this thread shows, "I like it for my use case, look at these libraries that let you get X and Y done SOOOO easy, so it must be great for everything."

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by copperx on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:14AM (#20673500)

I've contemplated leaving SE behind because of JavaScript, not because of Python. Do you tolerate JS?

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by hombre_fatal on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:39AM (#20673611)

I hated Javascript back when all it had were callbacks, but once native promises stabilized, I loved the simplicity + ubiquity of the promise abstraction, and then later async/await. Now it's actually my favorite dynamically-typed language.

I've noticed a lot of Javascript hate also comes from people just disliking client development (which isn't easy on any platform).

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by vturner on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:14PM (#20680073)

I thoroughly enjoy UI/client development, but the web app tooling (layer upon layer that is supposed to "fix" HTML/CSS/JS every few years) is frustrating to me. Thus, I avoid it like the plague. :)

To be fair, the JS ecosystem I think is a bit more tolerable than Python. JS isn't being promoted far and wide as the good-enough tool for everything like Python is. A lot of JS is focused on the "view", and I can see a dynamic language fitting there (though React/Redux is making me rethink that).

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