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>Reason 3 – Developer Productivity & Not Getting Too Creative There is a time and place for these tools. A part of managing a team is ensuring there are good p
by omegaworks 9y ago
>Reason 3 – Developer Productivity & Not Getting Too Creative
There is a time and place for these tools. A part of managing a team is ensuring there are good practices around "getting creative" and that there is a clear rationale. Python's metaprogramming came in handy for helping us provide a high level syntax to work with our data model.
- drdaeman 9y agoIt's not just metaprogramming, it's a lack of standard types (like sets) paired with a lack of parametric polymorphism cough yeah, generics cough that makes writing some data structure manipulations feel sort of counter-productive. Go makes up for this by making other stuff being easy and fast to code.
- dvt 9y agoI'm happy that Python's metaprogramming came in handy for you and your team, but Python's propensity for DSLs is one of the reasons I loathe it so much. I guess in the context of data science, a DSL makes sense, but it's a nightmare to debug.
- camus2 9y ago> I guess in the context of data science, a DSL makes sense, but it's a nightmare to debug. What do you think struct-tags are? it's not like Go is free of DSL either. In fact the std lib itself uses them. Let's not pretend Go is without fault on that matter.