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> It is stupid fun to program with Python Around 2009 I started questioning if I even enjoyed coding anymore. I was primarily using PHP and Java. Rather than q
by gdulli 9y ago
> It is stupid fun to program with Python
Around 2009 I started questioning if I even enjoyed coding anymore. I was primarily using PHP and Java. Rather than quit the profession I tried Python and suddenly it was fun again. 8 years later, it still is. Python just spoke my language.
My career is based around using Python because it's the way I enjoy the work. Everything else, like the actual properties of Python relative to other languages, is irrelevant to me if using another language would make the work unenjoyable again. (Though if Python didn't measure up very well compared to other languages it wouldn't have become my go-to in the first place.)
- cutler 9y agoTry Clojure and I promise you will have even more fun.
- alvivar 9y agoMaybe you should try F#, to me both are kind of fun compatible (plus the functional focus that is kind of fun by itself).
- Daishiman 9y agoSame thing here. I worked with PHP and Java apps and it was just pain having to deal with the awkwardness of PHP's designs and Java's boilerplate. I actually went into sysadmin roles because of that. Python gave me hope that there's fun development roles to be had. Nowadays the panorama for good languages, thankfully, is much better. PHP is no longer that much of a dumpster fire with modern frameworks, and Java has decided to adopt better defaults and drop the XML madness. Not to mention all the good languages that have come up (Elixir, Clojure, Rust, etc).