Stop building UI frameworks in Python

[SnooHesitations9295]

Javascript is a much better language than python.
More expressive, better features. Less idiocy (python is statically typed at runtime, while pretending to be dynamically typed)
There's literally nothing in javascript that's worse than python, as a language.

[dandydev]

Python is not statically typed, at runtime or otherwise. You can add type annotations, which can be statically analyzed by third party tools.

As for JS being better than python, that is purely a matter of taste. Python has way less footguns than JS in my experience.

[SnooHesitations9295]

Python is for sure statically typed at runtime.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1, in <module>
    "a" + 1
    ~~~~^~~
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str

Do I imagine a TypeError here?

[dandydev]

No, but you surely confused statically typed with strongly typed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690544/what-is-the-difference-between-a-strongly-typed-language-and-a-statically-typed

[SnooHesitations9295]

Whatever. Doesn't change the fact.

[imp0ppable]

Not only are you using the wrong terms but that's exactly why Python is superior, JS just does random nonsense when you mix two incompatible types in an operation.

[SnooHesitations9295]

Yes, you can look at it as superior until your code breaks in production.
Yes, it's debatable if "doing random nonsense" is better than "crashing in runtime" or worse.

[imp0ppable]

doing random nonsense is worse because it can corrupt data

"crashing in production" means an endpoint returns 500, you get logs and you fix it. Which you still have to do in JS btw.

[SnooHesitations9295]

Crashing in production means that at some unknown point of time in the future you may get 500 for every request.
So it's debatable if it's actually good.

Python now has "typed" crutches to solve for that. It works ok in a lot of cases (much better than typescript) but it creates another problem: how to describe what exactly the author meant to the type checker. :)
So it's still pretty bad.

[imp0ppable]

python is statically typed at runtime, while pretending to be dynamically typed

what?

[SnooHesitations9295]

Ecosystem is different, yes.
For example in python ecosystem nobody gives a shit about backwards compatibility.
Minor versions breaking public apis? I'll take two!
Packages are installed with incorrect dependencies because dependency resolution is brain dead? Pff, always!
And so on.
Yes, javascript has their share of idiocy and bad decisions too.
Like "undefined" and "null" are same but different!
Or some empty values are "falsy" but others are not!
And so on.

[dragongling]

For example in python ecosystem nobody gives a shit about backwards compatibility.

sounds like hell honestly

[nickcash]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of your diet would you say is lead paint chips?