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What a strange sentiment. I've never once heard anyone call Reitz controversial. I think the widespread usage of his libraries speaks for itself as to whether
by RidingPegasus 8y ago
What a strange sentiment. I've never once heard anyone call Reitz controversial.
I think the widespread usage of his libraries speaks for itself as to whether they are "good", especially considering they have standard library equivalents.
Am a big fan of Arrow, it's far better than DateTime.
- toyg 8y agoWell, now you’ve seen two in a single thread. Some of what Kenneth builds is very good, some less so. Sometimes he just pulls annoying stunts that are disrespectful of the community at large, like with pipenv. With all that “Human” marketing, he has burnt quite a bit of the goodwill accumulated with Requests, but he’s also built a critical mass of developers who will basically adopt anything he makes regardless of actual merits; which in turn generates backlash. The two phenomenons tend to feed on each other.
- devxpy 8y agoI found most of his projects quite useful. Sure, it might involve a bit of overselling, but the API design is really good for the most part. Also - I don't think you can really sustain an open source project that brings almost nothing, except a really good API (which some people really value) to the table without good marketing.