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It mostly makes me question the wisdom of implementing such a tool in Python in the first place - if you want low level access to raw underlying representations
by zmmmmm 7y ago
It mostly makes me question the wisdom of implementing such a tool in Python in the first place - if you want low level access to raw underlying representations etc, using a super high level scripting language seems like a "wrong tool for the job" scenario. I am sure on the other hand they got a lot of productivity benefits from doing that, which is great, but having taken that tradeoff I don't think it is fair to "sour" on a language when you clearly applied it out of it's domain and then encountered problems due to that.
- Tanooki_Mario 7y agoYou can't really say this after the language has supported the feature as a design decision for 15 years and then removes it. Part of the popularity of python is it made things easier for systems programmers. Unless you want us to write everything in C/C++ again?