Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
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Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
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#3I notice this was written in 2016, but I wonder if the author's opinion has changed since dataclasses have been implemented in Python.
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#4I have considered multiple times switching from Python to other alternatives. However, I instantly discard any language with a Lisp-like syntax. I just cannot work with it. Being a Haskell hobbyist, I would like Python to be statically type and have better support for pure functional programming, but Python has the libraries that I need.
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#5I have considered multiple times switching from Python to other alternatives. However, I instantly discard any language with a Lisp-like syntax. I just cannot work with it. Being a Haskell hobbyist, I would like Python to be statically type and have better support for pure functional programming, but Python has the libraries that I need.
> I just cannot work with it.
Can't or won't?
I'm not being facetious, here. I just can't imagine any reason one _couldn't_ work with it, once the syntax is learnt. There's nothing about lisp-like syntax that's inherently hard to learn.
Why is lisp special?
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#6I have considered multiple times switching from Python to other alternatives. However, I instantly discard any language with a Lisp-like syntax. I just cannot work with it. Being a Haskell hobbyist, I would like Python to be statically type and have better support for pure functional programming, but Python has the libraries that I need.
Python can be statically typed with mypy and type annotations.
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#7I have considered multiple times switching from Python to other alternatives. However, I instantly discard any language with a Lisp-like syntax. I just cannot work with it. Being a Haskell hobbyist, I would like Python to be statically type and have better support for pure functional programming, but Python has the libraries that I need.
Just think of the parenthesis as loving warm homoiconic hugs.
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#8I notice this was written in 2016, but I wonder if the author's opinion has changed since dataclasses have been implemented in Python.
Python's async support also seems to be getting better. There's a flask clone called Quart (http://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/) and an async postgres client (https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg). It works very similar to JavaScript, with async and await keywords. I think it should provide speed and comfort especially if you're a regular JavaScript user.
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#9Python is just the best language, why people are so headstrong not to use it everywhere? Speed would come along with investment. Is the perceived arrogance of some Pythonists a factor (that left Node.js/Javascript to become the actual lingua franca)?
Re: Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
#10> ...the “implied self parameter” on python methods turned me off.
If I had a nickel for every time I got the "TypeError: random_function() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given" because I forget the "self" parameter I could buy myself a coffee. Probably a fancy one from the Starbucks even!