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Stop using flake8. The original PEP 8 document doesn't even recommend 80 characters anymore. Pylint and mypy and black are way more useful.
I sure do enjoy watching people hyper-fixate on a tiny thing. I'm not sure who you think you're helping by doing this, but it isn't me.
Reading this got me thinking and I wonder if other people feel like me about this, so I'm going to share it. This is not serious, but not entirely unserious... I try to be a good sport about it, but every time I write python I want to quit software engineering. It makes me angry how little it values my time. It does little for my soured disposition that folks then vehemently lecture me about the hours saved by future…
I am about to hit a decade of python experience. I work with it daily, all my major codebases are written in it. I hate it. It has an ok object system which is possibly its only redeeming quality. I found Racket about 4 years ago, and any new project that I work on will be in Racket or CL. I could go on at length about the happy path mentality of python and the apologists who are too ignorant of other people's use ca…
What I am missing from Perl is library documentation and MetaCPAN. It seems that the go-to solution is that you're meant to create some kind of damn mini-site for any even vaguely complicated project you do using Sphinx, which seems bizarro land. Also the _requests_ documentation looks like it was written by Wes Anderson and wtf I hate it. Also I hate that all libraries have cute rather than descriptive names; yes there's some of that in Perl, but it feels like less. Bah humbug. Other than that it's fine.
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I have nightmares of dealing with Python packaging... I finally gave up and just started using PyInstaller to ship binary blobs to people.
That doesn’t even work in all situations. What if the system requires development packages? What if it’s a different OS or architecture? Packaging is a nightmare.
Static, portable binaries on Linux are hard.
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Well in my world, the other language is Java, not Haskell. Alone in this?
For what it's worth, Java tortures me a lot less since J8. I don't dread it the way I do python because I can use Clojure or Kotlin.
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Rust's cargo, JS's yarn and the grand daddy of them all Ruby's bundler address all these issues. Even newer versions of Gradle support a workflow where you specify the versions you know you want and just on everything else, including transitive dependencies, down.
Yeah.. not sure why the love for Ruby faded in startup-world
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F#, OCaml and Haskell Can I quickly prototype a new deep learning model and scale it to a 32 GPU cluster with very little effort in those languages?
For those unaware: Haskell has a REPL (ghci), and you can make files more script-like with the (currently most popular) build tool stack[0] if you include: #!/usr/bin/env stack -- stack --resolver lts-6.25 script --package turtle (as you see it includes easy dependency management :) ) 0: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/
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I think he is referring to indirect dependencies
>>> Why isn't there any builtin way to automatically define a lock file pip isn't actually part of Python proper.
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I know I’m responding to opinion but: developer productivity isn’t one of the pitfalls of Python. Yes I agree that if you’re using Python for a large scale project involving lots of developers its not the best; but that’s because it doesn’t have a good type system. You can’t work out why people like it so much because of this misconception. The languages that you gave as examples most definitely do _not_ value your p…
It's unclear to me how a person can be productive if the language doesn't value correctness.
Python as a structured upgrade to Excel.
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Yeah.. not sure why the love for Ruby faded in startup-world
From personal experience, hiring for Ruby development seemed to get a lot harder and of the few candidates that applied, many couldn't do FizzBuzz.