Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by KaiserPro on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:30PM
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I have thought about what you've written. I broadly agree. I didn't mean for my post to be a "python is great really", It was more to illustrate that all programming languages have drawbacks.
The is a points that I think I've failed to get over:
> Just as C isn't the problem, it's the programmer forgetting to check for the size of the buffer, and PHP isn't the problem, it's the programmer not using the correct function for random number generation
I don't think I was arguing that point. of course all languages have their USP. My point I wanted to get across is that large python projects are not inherently hard to manage. That kind of scaling is really not that much of an issue. I've worked on large repos for C, C++, python, perl, node and as a punishment, php. The only language that had an issue with a large codebase was node, because it was impossible to build and manage security. The "solution" to that was to have thousands of repos hiding in github.
The biggest impediment to growth was people refusing to read code, followed swiftly by pointless abstractions. This lead to silly situations where there were 7-12(!) wrappers for s3 functions. none of them had documentation and only one had test coverage.
The is a points that I think I've failed to get over:
> Just as C isn't the problem, it's the programmer forgetting to check for the size of the buffer, and PHP isn't the problem, it's the programmer not using the correct function for random number generation
I don't think I was arguing that point. of course all languages have their USP. My point I wanted to get across is that large python projects are not inherently hard to manage. That kind of scaling is really not that much of an issue. I've worked on large repos for C, C++, python, perl, node and as a punishment, php. The only language that had an issue with a large codebase was node, because it was impossible to build and manage security. The "solution" to that was to have thousands of repos hiding in github.
The biggest impediment to growth was people refusing to read code, followed swiftly by pointless abstractions. This lead to silly situations where there were 7-12(!) wrappers for s3 functions. none of them had documentation and only one had test coverage.