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Go is a vastly preferable language to Python or Ruby for most things. The "negative press" is quite overstated, it does get plenty of favorable advocacy as well.
Use an appropriate tool for the job, Python is useful for tons of things that would be a nightmare to pull off in golang, and vice versa.
I've been reimplementing a tool that was done in nodejs before and ported it to golang. I have to say that a lot of programming paradigms are different in golang, a few parts are annoying, and some parts are "getting there" with generics. The most annoying part if you do a lot of parsing is the golang mandated rule of what is public and what is private in a package. If you want to parse lots of JSON into a struct, me…
>sharing your code is even pain with colleagues even if they are using the same operating system, mainly because the Python requirement file doesn't pin dependencies, wat? Pretty sure you can use == in requirements.txt Also, its very possible, and quite easy to just include the code for the library in your package, which effectively "locks in" the version. We did this all the time when building AWS lambda deployments…
This comment section itself clearly shows how crazy dependency and environment management is in Python. In this thread alone, we've received instructions to... - poetry - "Just pin the dependencies and use Docker" - pip freeze - Vendoring in dependency code - pipreqs - virtualenv This is simply a mess and it's handled much better in other languages. I manage a small agency team and there are some weeks where I feel l…
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This comment section itself clearly shows how crazy dependency and environment management is in Python. In this thread alone, we've received instructions to... - poetry - "Just pin the dependencies and use Docker" - pip freeze - Vendoring in dependency code - pipreqs - virtualenv This is simply a mess and it's handled much better in other languages. I manage a small agency team and there are some weeks where I feel l…
Even using conda to manage reqs is an absolute nightmare. Did a subreq get updated? Did the author of the library pin that subreq? No? Have fun hunting down which library needs to be downgraded manually
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Go has always been a Java, C#, Python, and Ruby killer. It has not and never will be a C or C++ killer. C is the language of libraries and embedded, neither of which Go is good for. C++ is the language of large systems that need extreme control over resource allocation. Go is not good for this either.
Is Go really killing C# though? I've rewritten Go components in C# (the initial version only had basic functionality requirements, but as they expanded, Go made less and less sense given the rest of our codebase), but can't readily imagine wanting to rewrite C# in Go. Maybe once they add proper exceptions...
I've been reimplementing a tool that was done in nodejs before and ported it to golang. I have to say that a lot of programming paradigms are different in golang, a few parts are annoying, and some parts are "getting there" with generics. The most annoying part if you do a lot of parsing is the golang mandated rule of what is public and what is private in a package. If you want to parse lots of JSON into a struct, me…
>sharing your code is even pain with colleagues even if they are using the same operating system, mainly because the Python requirement file doesn't pin dependencies, wat? Pretty sure you can use == in requirements.txt Also, its very possible, and quite easy to just include the code for the library in your package, which effectively "locks in" the version. We did this all the time when building AWS lambda deployments…
This comment section itself clearly shows how crazy dependency and environment management is in Python. In this thread alone, we've received instructions to... - poetry - "Just pin the dependencies and use Docker" - pip freeze - Vendoring in dependency code - pipreqs - virtualenv This is simply a mess and it's handled much better in other languages. I manage a small agency team and there are some weeks where I feel l…
These are two different things, because they do two different jobs.
It's really very simple.
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How is this better than downgrading the error into a warning? You'd be able to build but would still know something was wrong-ish. Certainly a warning would be sufficient to chase down any bugs, and is very freeing compared to an error.
Turned around, what's the benefit of allowing someone to build something that may potentially break, when the alternative is an easy to fix error instead?
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Sometimes I feel people are using Python very differently than me. I just use pip freeze and virtualenv (these are Python basics, not some exotic tools) and I feel it works great. Granted, you don't get a nice executable, but it's still miles ahead of C++ (people literally put their code into header files so you don't have to link to a library), and even modern languages like rust (stuff is always broken, or I have s…
When I was a Python dev, I never saw that happen in ten years or so of work. Pip freeze and virtualenv just worked for me. I will say, though, that this only accounts for times where you’re not upgrading dependencies. Where I’ve always run into issues in Python was when I decided to upgrade a dependency and eventually trigger some impossible mess.
>sharing your code is even pain with colleagues even if they are using the same operating system, mainly because the Python requirement file doesn't pin dependencies, wat? Pretty sure you can use == in requirements.txt Also, its very possible, and quite easy to just include the code for the library in your package, which effectively "locks in" the version. We did this all the time when building AWS lambda deployments…
This comment section itself clearly shows how crazy dependency and environment management is in Python. In this thread alone, we've received instructions to... - poetry - "Just pin the dependencies and use Docker" - pip freeze - Vendoring in dependency code - pipreqs - virtualenv This is simply a mess and it's handled much better in other languages. I manage a small agency team and there are some weeks where I feel l…
if you could import numpy==3.2 it'd solve many problems.