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It's amazing to me that a python program can be written to make sure another python program is pythoning properly.
by onestay42 1y ago
It's amazing to me that a python program can be written to make sure another python program is pythoning properly.
- goku12 1y agoJust curious. Isn't that how development tools generally work? Would you be surprised if it was in and for a compiled language? (This isn't a dismissal. I'm curious about the aspect of this specific case that amuses you.)
- onestay42 1y agoI suppose it is how this kind of tool generally works. I think it's just some subset of the feeling I get when someone writes(implements?) $LANGUAGE in $LANGUAGE(e.g. brainf*ck in brainf*ck) EDIT: escaped censorship
- mhh__ 1y agoFoundational tooling not being written in a compiled language (fast is good, it could be jitted, but ideally it's a single binary) is actually a huge tax that I'm quite glad we're getting over as an industry. Python is probably the apex of the "slow + doesn't work without a magic environment" problem
- mhh__ 1y agoYou can see from how quickly the code becomes extremely busy and annoying to read that python being flexible is a blessing and a curse. Maybe curse is the wrong word, but none of this was really designed cohesively so it's usually very janky and a bit slow.