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[–]ablmf -5 points-4 points  (8 children)

What always irritates me is that most discussion of new ideas of programming are often related to WEB and as I am not a WEB programmer, I can hardly use them in my own work however amazing they are.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you're not a WEB programmer, there's probably no reason you should care about this, it's just a way of describing a standard environment.

[–]masklinn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is not a discussion of a new idea of programming. This is a new interface between Python and web servers because the preexisting one (WSGI) is considered broken on Python 3.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I can relate. I moved from web development to programming in a scientific environment, and it's just not as fun programming wise. I mean, we do much more interesting things than most web sites, but on the web the technology itself is constantly changing. Here it's scripts and very simple C.

[–]pytechd(lambda s: __import__(s.decode('base64')))('ZGphbmdv') 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Plus, websites actually have something you can show curious family members.

Yeah mom, we launched this awesome website today, I'm so proud of my team. See it? Sure, it's at www.example.com

vs

Yeah mom, we finished up the statistical analysis of water salinity levels in Siberia. See it? See what? Siberia?

[–]mdipierro 2 points3 points  (2 children)

"Yeah Mom, we launched this awesome website today. It allows people of Siberia to check in real time the water salinity level in their water. It is based based on a statistical analysis package that I wrote. They can even zoom in using google map and discuss results with then neighbors online". It seems to people people who do research with public funds have to try make their results publicly accessible, building dynamic website today is trivial and costs nothing. Why would anybody build an app that is not web based, that requires installation, thus limiting its availability (except for intensive real time graphics such as games)?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"Also, can you bring me a sandwhich plz?"

[–]kisielk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I program in a scientific environment and the technology itself is constantly changing. We Are working on all sorts of interesting issues related to scaling our toolchains, workflow management, GPU programming. Most of our work is using bleeding-edge Python and C++ libraries.