mcdermott

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   by mcdermott 7y ago

   C# (the default .Net lang) has so much ceremony, boilerplate/scaffolding and IDE dependence (IDE programmers) and OOP overhead that it requires 5x more lines of code than the same app in Python or Go. Every time my interest peaks, I ta
2. 92.▲
   by mcdermott 7y ago

   Perl 6 was a huge mistake; it's a different language and should have never had the same name. I support renaming it so we can all forget about it and have Perl 7 be a direct, mostly backwards compatible descendant of Perl 5 with featur
3. 93.▲
   by mcdermott 7y ago

   Python has "jumped the shark" for me. Python is no longer Pythonic (the "import this", zen of python easter egg should be removed). It's lost it way and is TIMTOWTDI now, heading for that Perl 6 brass ring. Golang i
4. 94.▲
   by mcdermott 8y ago

   Chef (and configuration management in general) is an anti-pattern for a cloud native approach. The soup of the Chef ecosystem has always seemed hard to understand (and teach new team members): Chef, Chef-solo/zero, rubocup, test kitche
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   Speeding up Python with Nim(robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io)

   27 points by mcdermott 8y ago|5 comments
6. 96.▲
   by mcdermott 8y ago

   I've been toying with Nim over the past few months and really like it and hope its adoption picks up post 1.0. I've been using Python for 10+ several years and Go for the past two years and returning to them after a good Nim codin