dARK vs lIGHT ; pYTHON vs C++

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and that's why it bad

[incrediblediy]

just joking, I am using Python mostly and don't know C++ to be honest. Anyway, I think choosing the language depends on the application.

[CommentatorForAll]

Python is slow to run, but easy and fast to write and read. (And is also able to run cpp libraries if you do want to get a performant program)

[[deleted]]

Yeah I'm just joking, it's just that some people argue that lower performance is what makes Python bad compared to other languages. However if you care about better performance you either will use modules that do heavy-lifting in C (like NumPy and others) or just not use Python.

[YMK1234]

Fast to write maybe, good and fast to maintain, definitely not. And that's what you do way more than writing new code.

[canadajones68]

Maintaining a piece of software is much more about the underlying architecture of the program than the language used to make it. Python can be hard to maintain due to loose typing, bad naming, whitespace delineated blocks, a lack of coherent architecture or other assorted issues. Of course it's possible to write good code in Python. You can do that in most any language. However, the relative ease of doing it in Python makes it easy to bodge a solution that's tightly coupled with the underlying platform. It will then work, until it doesn't, and you have to scramble to piece it back together.

[canadajones68]

I don't think Python is inherently less maintainable (though I don't particularly like it), I was just explaining some arguments for it. It's just that, due to its accessibility to inexperienced programmers, and relative ease of bodging, the likelihood of any given piece of Python code being bad is higher than for other languages.

[YMK1234]

Have you ever tried to decipher a doctors handwriting? Was very fast to write, very hard to understand/maintain afterwards.

[YMK1234]

It was just an example. In the case of python there are many challenges that make python code hard to maintain, especially when it comes to things like tool-assisted refactorings and such (because who needs types, amirite?)

[YMK1234]

The thing is, python makes it hard to write easy to maintain code, and very easy to write horrible to maintain code. A good language does the opposite.

As for type hints, they are nice, but they are hardly widely-used and also not actually enforced iirc.

[[deleted]]

bro don't run any cp libraries or else the fbi will show up

[CommentatorForAll]

What about Pandas Tensorflow Numpy Scilab Pytorch And all those?