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I’ve seen this happen with senior devs too, but who come from a background other than Python. There’s a lot of value in deeply learning the internals of a lang
by wirthjason 6y ago
I’ve seen this happen with senior devs too, but who come from a background other than Python.
There’s a lot of value in deeply learning the internals of a language so you can write good code in the target language rather than developing some mashup of “features”.
Ironically the article begins with be premise of deeply learning python but never touches on the advanced features that were learned and applied to develop the library.
- jph00 6y agoThe person that wrote the article doesn't work at fast.ai and didn't write the library, so they don't have that information.
- hitekker 6y agoBut aren't you one of the authors of this article? The headline lists you as an author and you're a founding researcher at Fast.ai.
- jph00 6y agoOh so it does! Sorry I'll ask Hamel to change that - he's just being generous with his credit. I didn't write a single word of it! Sorry for the confusion. :)
- mloncode 6y agoSorry about that. Indeed, I felt that since he was the author of the library and essential to me learning it I felt the least I could do was to put his name on there. I removed his name via https://github.com/fastai/fastpages/pull/408 https://github.com/fastai/fastpages/pull/408 -- Sorry for the confusion! Indeed, even though I learned a ton about python, I didn't feel like what I had to say made for an interesting blog article, and was a bit abstract. I was equally excited about the library from and end user's perspective and decided to blog about that instead.