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[–] escapesamsara@discuss.online 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Python is legitimately the best language by far for the vast majority of non-performance critical tasks, and most tasks that need to be developed for are not performance critical.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Heh, I was about to comment how my hot take is that Python is overrated. It's... fine and I don't really have anything against it for the most part, but I greatly prefer Ruby to Python.

I'm speaking purely about the language itself here, not any libraries available for it (since someone will always point out how great Python is for data work).

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My impression at the time was that Ruby and Python both caught on with people who were ready to be done with Perl.

And, later, that Go set out to be a replacement for Java, but ended up being a replacement for Python for people who were ready for type checking and built-in multithreading.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Me too! Even just the fact that only false and nil are falsey is enough for me to prefer Ruby. Being able to use ||= as an idiomatic one-time initializer is rad. Python's OOP bothers me in a lot of ways compared to Ruby as well. And don't get me started on Ruby's blocks. . .

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The OOP in Python isn't bolted on. It was there from the first version I ever saw in the 90s.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely right, not sure where I thought I had read that.

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really enjoy typescript these days. Is there a Python typed equivalent?

[–] TerrorBite@meow.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Python has had syntax support for type annotations for a while now. The Python runtime doesn't enforce the typing at all, but it can be enforced by a linter or by your IDE. And I believe you can introspect the type annotations at runtime, because they are actually part of the syntax.

There's even an alternative way of doing type annotations through specially formatted comments, just in case you might still need to write code that is backwards compatible with Python 2.

@escapesamsara @navi @programming

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

mypy is great, but it doesn't come close to what you can do with TypeScript. I don't think that's necessarily a jab at Python (though TypeVar's limitations do come up here and there), more just throwing TypeScript on a pedestal.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

For bigger projects, anything with MANDATORY types is a must for me. Optional, not compiler checked hinting doesn't cut it.

Not that i hate the language, but I do hate the tooling around it. I don't think I've ever had a pleasant experience with setting up a Python project. And all the data stuff is just wrappers for code in other languages, making the packaging story even uglier, even harder.