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As as a meta comment the dynamics and interplay of language adoption and language evolution is quite fascinating. For whatever reason, a lot of people have learned Python in recent times. Whether the hype is data science, machine learning or AI, the number of users creates its own reality. So now you have some serious talent looking at the pain points people express about the platform, because ofcourse you want to ke…
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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…
Jupyter and Shiny seem adequate for that.
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good Lord, when did things get to be like this? if I shipped a free web framework with opt- out telemetry, I'd feel like a massive douche
Opt-out telemetry in companies based on open source projects has become a critical component of YC applications, VC pitches, and acquisition pitches. If it was opt-in of course nobody would turn it on. It's shady but I also somewhat understand the founders who are doing product-led growth by giving out the product on GitHub/PyPI, yet still need some usage metrics to quantify the stickiness to their backers. Pip insta…
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Opt-out telemetry in companies based on open source projects has become a critical component of YC applications, VC pitches, and acquisition pitches. If it was opt-in of course nobody would turn it on. It's shady but I also somewhat understand the founders who are doing product-led growth by giving out the product on GitHub/PyPI, yet still need some usage metrics to quantify the stickiness to their backers. Pip insta…
How about tracking licenses or subscriptions sold and show that to investors?
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I don't know where you work, but at my company, I'm struggling to get people to use anything but Python.
Good luck with that! I think using python for anything beyond a simple script or PoC, should be taken as a red flag in development and immediately revise that decision of using it.
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Hey, you know the most popular programming language in the world? They don't have a way to write web applications. If you fund us, we'll build a tool for that, tap into a huge TAM and make bank. Sounds like a pitch that would make VCs start falling over eachother
Close, except throw "AI" in there a few dozen times. Even the example they use in the README is for calling the DALL-E API.
Yes, and earlier it was crypto, and earlier, $foo_buzzword, and earlier, $bar_hypeword, and earlier, SAAS, and earlier, client-server, and ...
I feel like everything is eventually going to go full circle back to Google Web Toolkit[0]. The original "write it all in X language" toolkit with compile to JavaScript functionality. [0]: https://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html
I feel like everything is eventually going to go full circle back to Google Web Toolkit[0]. The original "write it all in X language" toolkit with compile to JavaScript functionality. [0]: https://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html
1. huge programmer pool 2. tried and tested legacy code could be easily used / adapted 3. code quality / checkstyle plugins just worked 4. great testing tools
My main gripe was the compile time (often 2-3 mins)...whereas Adobe Flex would crank code out in 3 seconds.
Now, the new language models should help us push through the noise.