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I wish them the best with their hosting platform.
$5 million raised for hosting? I honestly fail to understand the ways of VC despite a decade of trying to understand them.
Sounds like a pitch that would make VCs start falling over eachother
Why are we trying to fit a square peg into a round hole
Maybe it is easier to learn a framework within the ecosystem of a language you already know than to learn both a framework and a new language. Tons of software exists for this reason. For example, somewhat relevant here, web apps in R via R Shiny: https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/ (There is also Shiny for Python IIRC.)
I'm in this camp.
For services that I'm building that are not heavily frontend reliant, I don't want to learn a whole new language and framework
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Since when is Python the “default choice” for server side dev?
Never to the degree JS on the client is, though the early and strong support on PaaS/serverless systems gaveit something of an edge for certain server-side stuff, and it was popular for a long time (though not dominant) outside of that. Really, I think the main driver for isomorphic Python web libraries like this isn't general web apps (though they'll get used for that, too), but the putting frontends on data science…
I've looked into this recently and it's really good. They make use of Python's type annotations to do some clever conversions to frontend code.
I realize TypeScript may be doing the same thing but that somehow tastes OK because it was purpose built for the task. (Although I abhor cleverness in general).
My major complain here is that, as far as being a web framework there is precious little information here about the framework. How does this framework scale with multiple requests? What concurrency strategy is it using (threads, processes, actors, etc?). Is this opinionated (it doesn't seem so but it also doesn't say it isn't either). How does this work with popular libraries x,y,z. The full docs have a little bit mo…
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Since never. People use either Java, PHP or NodeJs.
I don't know where you work, but at my company, I'm struggling to get people to use anything but Python.
I've looked into this recently and it's really good. They make use of Python's type annotations to do some clever conversions to frontend code.
Do you mean internally in the library? None of the sample code has any type annotations.
sometimes the war is lost even before the battle begins. During grad school, I wrote a whole bunch of web apps entirely in R using Shiny. It was clunky as hell, but yeah, it worked. I went looking for what's up with Shiny these days and found this - https://shiny.posit.co/ So yeah, full on pivot into python. pip install shiny. Alright! "No web development skills required. Develop web apps entirely in R I mean Python"…