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These are not complicated tasks that should require a plugin or an AI assistant to make bearable. Just add the syntax to the language.
by miiiiiike 3y ago
These are not complicated tasks that should require a plugin or an AI assistant to make bearable. Just add the syntax to the language.
- michaelcampbell 3y ago> These are not complicated tasks ... Just add the syntax to the language. Hahah, I've never designed a language, but I've been around long enough to know these 2 phrases are incredibly at odds.
- miiiiiike 3y agoI've never seen another language with generic syntax as poor as Python's. What's a better solution adding sensible syntax to the language or requiring every programmer to us an AI agent to handle the byzantine imports?
- michaelcampbell 3y agoOh I totally agree with you on that. It's just that "just add syntax" is incredibly difficult even as a greenfield effort, much less trying to fix an existing language, especially one as old and used as Python. If the (studied) metric that "if over 20% to 25% of a thing needs to be redone, restart it from scratch" is true, then a new language altogether is probably the way and let Python just be Python.