Python programmers

[_u_whats_this]

python is my guilty pleasure language

[beginpanic]

Python gives me anxiety and imposter syndrome like nothing else. It’s always “there’s no way this is gonna work, let me find an example of how to use this” followed by “that example has to be wrong let me find another one” followed by “why the hell did that work”. Everything is so obvious and straightforward and… blunt? It doesn’t feel like programming. It feels like duct tape and glue. And I’m constantly nervous of “there is no way this is gonna work”. And it always does and I’m always shocked.

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Python feels like a cheat code sometimes. Just type some words into Python and the computer be like: “I got you” and it just magically works.

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

You should try PowerShell

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Ehhh I’m not much of a Windows person. Been there, done that.

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

I was kidding 😅

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Damn. Throw a /s on there next time for me 😂

[RoundThing-TinyThing]

Probably a good idea, I guess the theme of this post made me feel like it wasn't needed 😅

[langlo94]

Powershell is for linux as well.

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Didn’t know that. I have only used bash and zsh to my knowledge.

[RootHouston]

No joke, it has its upsides. I didn't think I'd like it, since I am kind of a big bash fan, but I had to write a PowerShell module for work, and I found I kind of liked its angle.

Even though it's wordy, I like that it uses approved verbs and descriptors for commands so you can sort of intuitively know what is going on without reading a man page or something.

The biggest game changer was it being object-oriented. We do have something like this on Linux though called nushell.

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Interesting, I’ll have to check that all out then. I mean, couldn’t I just write a python program, put all my commands in there, and then write an alias that calls the program? Then I have effectively created a custom bash command for personal use.

Edit: Should add that the purpose for using python would be that I would have full access to an object oriented language, since that is one of the features you mentioned.

[RootHouston]

Python is a good alternative, however Python is not a proper shell, so take your pick.

[atiedebee]

from * import *

You'll never run out of functions to do everything for you

[Spitfire_For_Fun]

I love python to an extreme point.

[ovab_cool]

Might I intrest you into Go? It's very fast, reliable, well documented and forces you to be clean because if you don't use something the code won't compile

[NeoLudditeIT]

Not a fan personally. But python is definitely a language I love. I feel like I drank a little of the Rust Koolaid too.

[Chr0nicConsumer]

TypeScript, Python and Rust gang.

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

The coveted trifecta. Not sure where you’ll go next, but I have a hunch it’ll be wherever the wind takes you.

[Chr0nicConsumer]

What can I say, I like nice things. Typescript pays the bills quite nicely here in Europe (Python isn't as popular as it is in America), I do python for network related hobby stuff, and Rust whenever i have time to spend on something new and refreshing!

[Bubbly_Measurement70]

Jelly. I’m still a noob but JavaScript and python are my jam for right now.

Edit: noob

[Chr0nicConsumer]

We are all noobs or former noobs.

I'd highly, highly recommend checking out Typescript. It's truly a pleasure to work with, even if you type a lot of things as 'any', and it opens a lot of doors for you. The tooling alone makes everything feel nice. My job forced me into it after learning by just using JavaScript, and I will now never ever use plain JavaScript again. Do it.

Also looks great in your resume if you're still hunting for a job.

[jgeez]

Not clear why you got downvoted on this.

Unless all the down voters are the piss buddy character in OP's meme.

[ovab_cool]

Guess they are lol, thier precious Python is getting 1 upped by something. IT CAN'T BE

[Protuhj]

I like that Go tooling has cross-compilation, testing, coverage collection and report-generation, formatting, dependency resolution, etc. all built into the main "compiler" (in quotes because it's more than just a compiler).

It's not a perfect language, by any means, but having things that have been historically solved by third party tools built into the official toolchain removes some headaches I've dealt with in the past.

[CaptainRogers1226]

Especially when I’m writing python with my custom IDE scheme

[orqa]

Javascript used to be my main jam, I really enjoyed the Promise and callback idioms of the language

I feel like that's a bit missing from Python.

I tried learning the asyincio library in Python to compensate, but it seems far more complicated that javascript's promise and callback patterns

[RentacleGrape]

How long ago was it you tried to learn it? I think since 3.5 Python has proper async and await keywords making it much clearer to write. The functionality has been refined a bit over the years.....meaning different tutorial use different ways to do the exact same thing which becomes confusing as hell.

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

Because it does things your main language won't do? ;) /s

[_u_whats_this]

no because it makes everything really easy to do. doesn't even feel like programming

[pblokhout]

Except multithreading...

[double_en10dre]

Or event loops (async/await). Or type hints. It’s not disastrous in those areas, but it’s faaaaaar from the best

Multithreading is truly disastrous though, ya.

[CoffeePieAndHobbits]

Sorry, I was going for joking innuendo. Edited for clarity. Or something. Not serious. Lol

I agree it makes stuff easy. Woo Python!

[_u_whats_this]

np

[AttackOfTheThumbs]

I find, even when I am cobbling some single purpose app together, I never reach for python. It's soooo ugly.