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I know I shouldn't feel that way, but as a developer who loathes Python, this is a painful read. I start to feel that if I can't fight the trend then I should j
by d--b 9y ago
I know I shouldn't feel that way, but as a developer who loathes Python, this is a painful read. I start to feel that if I can't fight the trend then I should join it. But then every time I try Python, I feel such unease because of the low performance and the dynamic typing.
It's just something I don't understand... this is really depressing to me.
- eatplayrove 9y agoI am not an evangelist of any form, but running python code with pypy isn't that bad in terms of performance (especially given the ease of writing the actual code), and you can use type hints if you like since 3.5 : https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
- peferron 9y agoYou're not alone. The only place I like Python is as a replacement for shell scripting.
- dom96 9y agoYou might find Nim[1] to be a worthy alternative. I primarily see it as a compiled Python with good performance and static typing. 1 - https://nim-lang.org https://nim-lang.org
- d--b 9y agoOh, usually I am wary of trying new languages but this looks very cool indeed.
- Boothroid 9y agoI hate Python also - supposed to be this magic low barrier to entry language, but as soon as I want to do anything of substance I start encountering just as much complexity as any other language, only the documentation is worse, and the libraries I want to use are in one way or another a nightmare. I don't buy the hype, use it reluctantly when I have to.