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Python is definitely heading down that dark path. I wonder how many pythonistas are fully across all of the new syntax coming, like positional-only args or eve
by yen223 7y ago
Python is definitely heading down that dark path.
I wonder how many pythonistas are fully across all of the new syntax coming, like positional-only args or even the infamous assignment expression.
- DonaldPShimoda 7y agoI don't think it's the case that a language needs all of its syntactic sugar to be intuitive or obvious to the initiate. These are things you will acquire over time as you either search the internet for "how do I do X" or you read other people's code that exemplifies them. Though I'd argue that anybody who adopts the "pythonista" label is likely to be somebody who looks through version release notes for these kinds of things. I certainly do!
- sametmax 7y ago2 new syntaxes a years is not a not. I find it quite balanced for a 25 years old language. It's funny, because I always hear people complaining Python move too slowly to stay modern on one side, and then right after some other people saying it goes too fast. My take on this is that people just like to complain.
- voldacar 7y agoYes! Python is getting less pythonic with each new version.
- baq 7y agoi prefer to see it the glass half-full way: the definition of pythonic continuosly evolves.