• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Lmao, bruh. How do people keep praising a language where messing up a space breaks everything and there is no real type system?

    • jedibob5@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The whitespace doesn’t bother me. Any IDE worth a damn will manage that for you. As for the type system, yeah, I strongly prefer static typing, but for simpler projects I can see the convenience of it.

      My real issue with Python comes with managing a development environment when multiple developers are working on it. Dependency management in Python is a headache, and while in theory, virtual envs should help with synchronizing environments from machine to machine, I still find it endlessly fiddly with a bunch of things that can go wrong that are hard to diagnose.

      Python is great for small scripts, proofs-of-concept, and such, but I wouldn’t write anything more heavy-duty than that in it.

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        You can totally write heavy duty things if you know what you’re doing: use type hints, static checkers, tests, etc. It just takes a bit more effort and care.

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          Personally, my estimate doubles when we’re asked to implement something in Python…