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then it calls the Perl implementation... is there some nuance of perl that would cause a problem with that?

response was to the fact that the comment said the method of format strings was one of “the best ways to go about it” It’s obvious that PyOS_snprintf is not a standard library func…

> Any device not allowing that is, simply put, not respecting the intelligence of the user. This is kind of a silly absolutist opinion. Sure, you should have an option to have a co…

I think part of their reasoning is that if they publish the rulebook, then people will find ways to misuse the services in a roundabout way. It’s easier to find bugs in source mate…

There are many open source projects that are terrible codebases but have great support. Example for me... lwIP. One of the worst APIs I’ve ever used, but it works damn near perfect…

I disagree. Applicant should have done more to understand the requirements for the task. That’s a massive part of software engineering, and you would be surprised how much time sof…

> I'm not sure rust is really aiming to be something used for data science workflows I’m not totally convinced rust knows what it’s aiming to be, other than replacing c++...

Sounds like you’re over reading into what was essentially a two-point comment... there was no snarkiness in that comment at all - just a statement that rust is not really offering …

> Python is easy to get started with, but once a project grows to any meaningful size, I would rather have a compiler boy do I have a continent full of python developers to introdu…

> like dealing with Python2 vs Python3, and generally having to run everything in the context of a virtual environment, and the fact that it doesn't seem to really have a single "r…