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Re:Python Is Eating the World by peteretep on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:59AM (#20673421)
Two decade Perl programmer who's been using a bunch of Python recently. I don't hate it, but I've not been getting any particularly complicated use-cases. I do miss Moose a lot, and I miss Bread::Board and I miss DBIx::Class, which SQLAlchemy does not make up for. The weird scoping didn't take too long to get right, although string interpolation still takes me too much thinking about.

What I am missing from Perl is library documentation and MetaCPAN. It seems that the go-to solution is that you're meant to create some kind of damn mini-site for any even vaguely complicated project you do using Sphinx, which seems bizarro land. Also the _requests_ documentation looks like it was written by Wes Anderson and wtf I hate it. Also I hate that all libraries have cute rather than descriptive names; yes there's some of that in Perl, but it feels like less. Bah humbug. Other than that it's fine.

Re:Python Is Eating the World by TurboHaskal on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:51AM (#20674936)
This resonates with me. I miss working with Perl greatly (my current employer forbids me to write anything on it), and having to deal with Python instead makes me miss it even more.