The language is as important as architecture and stuff.
Pick the right language for the right task.
Performance? Don’t use python.
Everything else? Use python because everyone does.
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I despise python syntax.
That’s why we use JavaScript on the front end, JavaScript on the back end, and you can streamline it even more by using JavaScript for the db layer too. After all, if you have too much data to be reasonably parsed in a single .json file, you are probably just architecting wrong.
Every time you get over 200k lines of JSON you gotta split it into another app, so you can webscale.
I miss the old tts voices and now everything is ai generated garbage :( Bring back the robot voices!
Almost any language is OK, but Rust is just so, so fucking ugly
Hard disagree. Super beautiful.
Average Rust code:
macro_rules! sum { ( $initial:expr $(, $expr:expr )* $(,)? ) => { $initial $(+ $expr)* } } fn remove_prefix<'a>(mut original: &'a str, prefix: &str) -> &'a str let mut up = 1; 'outer: loop {Hell I don’t want to know what you define as ugly then.
- Macro syntax technically isn’t even Rust
- This is definitely not average Rust code.
FORTRAN isn’t a beauty either.
And Python is strange as hell with its mandatory tabs.
I like using python just cuz I can quickly get it working. I wish I had the time to undust C and try getting that to do what I want but my work cares more about iteration and speed to implement than speed of the program itself.
Python has many great aspects, unfortunately it’s missing
strongstatic typing.Most of the code at my current job doesn’t even have the optional type annotations. You just see like
def something(config). What’s config? A dict? A list? A string? Who the fuck knows.Unfortunately most of the developers seem to have a very pre-modern take on programming and aren’t interested in changing anything.
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But, Haskell…, it’s so well thought out, so evolved, the best of all functional programming in one, the ability to handle infinite lists, the lazy evaluation, the strict type checking, the compiler that catches whole classes of bugs, the curt syntax, the ability to breathe it like pure thought, the clarity like maths…
Okay, sorry, I better leave the room too.
Sorry, Clojure is newer and fancier.
Programming languages, much like the jackass in the middle, are tools. Different tools are for different things. The right tool for the job can make your day. The wrong tool can make you question your entire career.
Funny how tools are useful. But a person who is a tool is not.
A tool of a person is a fool who is being used by someone else. They might not be useful to you, but to who ever makes the koolaid they’re drinking, they’re a very good tool.
I think that’s the basic idea, but in practice it’s used for people who are just generally dumb as well.
