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I wanted to like Python. Every time I tried to use/learn it, the "program" I wanted to use had some issue. The very first one (some 15 years ago) depended on mu
by dmz73 3y ago
I wanted to like Python.
Every time I tried to use/learn it, the "program" I wanted to use had some issue.
The very first one (some 15 years ago) depended on mutually incompatible libraries so I had to spend time not only learning Python but fixing the libraries to work together.
Next one was a dlna server that managed to use up all 4GB RAM available on my NAS and make the whole system unusable.
Then there was a "compiler" that worked on all OS-es except that on Windows it would 100% not work due to some path string handling when starting a process. How do you even get to that point...that could have never worked on Windows and it's not like Windows is some marginal never used system so no testing was required.
Then I tried to write a simple script to transfer some emails via IMAP...and Python idea of supporting IMAP is for me to read the RFC and build the correct string to sent to IMAP server...WTF???? That is the assembler lever of "support" of something.
I did try to do that and then I ended up with multiple pages of something that looked like level of arcade game with climbing hills and cliffs of code where it was hard to tell if code was meant to end or if someone got bored of writing and just gave up.
I hate Python.
- anthk 3y agoHeh. On Python and IMAP, getmail was dog slow against isync/mbsync. Same RAM issues.