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I feel the same way. Python has been my goto language for a long time, but lately I've been noticing that I've been holding off on writing new tools with it be
by athrun 3y ago
I feel the same way.
Python has been my goto language for a long time, but lately I've been noticing that I've been holding off on writing new tools with it because on the back of my mind I have this nagging feeling that making them robust and portable will take too much work—and so I don't even bother getting started.
It's this trap of yes you get to ~99% pretty fast, but the last 1% (packaging/distribution) then take forever.
But I'm still looking for a good alternative... Golang does the job—no question, but it doesn't spark joy for me.
- chasinglogic 3y agoWhile there is definitely a higher barrier to entry, once I got comfortable with Rust (and finally stole someones working cross-compile / publish github actions for it) it has surplanted Golang in this use case because it does spark joy for me.