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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by avinassh on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:15PM (#43549251)
> There are plenty of large projects written in Python.

There are, but they are certainly a pain in the ass to work with.

I once had to work on a semi-large Python codebase and got so frustrated that I wanted to port the code to some other language. The best part? I wrote the majority of that codebase myself, just months earlier.

I ranted about it here: https://avi.im/blag/2023/refactoring-python/

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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by mplanchard on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:37PM (#43550068)
Yeah I mean, I've worked on a multi-million-line Python 2 codebase. It wasn't easy, but it certainly wasn't impossible.
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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by ddejohn on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @02:09PM (#43549791)
Not sure why you're being downvoted -- large, legacy, untyped Python projects are a nightmare to work with.
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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by joquarky on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:41PM (#43558588)
Just keep in mind there are a thousand people right behind you who would be ecstatic to be able to work on this "nightmare" in order to earn a paycheck.
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