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I've debated jumping from perl only dev into the python world for a couple of years now. I've got a list of Django youtube vids queued up on my plex server rig
by esaym 11y ago
I've debated jumping from perl only dev into the python world for a couple of years now.
I've got a list of Django youtube vids queued up on my plex server right now. But I was thinking yesterday (while in the shower of course), perl has perl6 (which may or may not take off). But what does the future of python have?
Python 4,5,6? Any real innovative changes or just more of kicking the can down the road (such as perl5)?
- ch4s3 11y agoI think the best case for moving to Python is for the tooling around math and data science. If you're build other types of web apps in Perl and looking to switch to something else. I'm not sure Django is going to offer you a ton of benefit for the switching cost, IMHO.
- esaym 11y agoWell the benefit I initially see is more jobs and with a side note of hopefully a cleaner code base. There are not too many perl companies that have been founded in the last 10 years. And I am finding more and more that companies that are older than 10 years old and are using perl, that this usually means they haven't changed a dang thing in their architecture or web dev process since 1998. Which means I get to deal with CGI spaghetti, 6+ second page load times (so count ajax anything out), and the world's worse use of javascript. I've had good experiences with newer perl companies with short contract work, but these older ones are killing me and I'm pretty bummed about it as you can tell. I've worked hard to learn best practices and modern web dev styles, none of which I can use at the older places.
- StavrosK 11y agoWhat's the can here?