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I’m what I would say part of the old guard. Type annotations and checking was weird to me, but okay, then walrus assignment := came and I felt that’s maybe wort
by toxik 6y ago
I’m what I would say part of the old guard. Type annotations and checking was weird to me, but okay, then walrus assignment := came and I felt that’s maybe worth it (makes some loop idioms a lot cleaner!)... then the match thing, I’m really starting to feel like the shine has worn off. Python is a noncohesive mess design wise.
Two Python developers today may well have such enormous differences of opinion on what constitutes proper Python, they could be talking about different languages
- pansa2 6y agoDavid Beazley agrees with your last paragraph in a recent tweet: “Python is at least three different programming languages at this point.” https://mobile.twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1373296229711376387 https://mobile.twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1373296229711376387
- geofft 6y agoIn the old days we called that "multiparadigm" and said it was a good thing.