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It’s not even the language that causes the most friction, it’s the runtime, libraries, package manager, build system, foreign function interfaces, and on and on
by schemescape 4y ago
It’s not even the language that causes the most friction, it’s the runtime, libraries, package manager, build system, foreign function interfaces, and on and on…
- nixlim 4y agoThis, more than anything and it doesn't only apply to the "new" languages. I spent the last year picking up basic Common Lisp and Elixir just for the fun of it. As "languages" they are great, but their ecosystems made me realize how spoiled I am working in Java.
- cjohnson318 4y agoHundred percent. You're not competing with Python, you're competing with Pip.
- jakobnissen 4y agoIt wish that was the case. Then Pkg would have already won, seeing that it's so obviously superior in every possible way.
- maleldil 4y agoPip is the wrong comparison; it should be with PyPI. The package ecosystem is Python's killer app.
- cjohnson318 4y agoAh, you're exactly right.
- randrus 4y agoIt’s not the language, it’s the leverage. I came to python in the 90s because of the white space (I was young and impressionable) and stayed for the flexibility and wealth of packages and projects out there.