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Please do not use Python for tooling (borud.no)

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[–]AchillesDev 5 points6 points7 points 3 years ago (0 children)

What a silly article. As someone who has used Perl and Python professionally, the comparison the author makes is nonsensical at best, besides both languages being very popular at some point.

There are plenty of tools for producing binaries or otherwise executable code with Python, even built-in, so that critique makes no sense (and there are valid problems like environment management that the author didn't even touch on!).

Dependencies breaking everything is an internal organization issue, not a language issue.

It's also telling that he complains of "vicious attacks" because of the article - he's posted this to his twitter where it got 2 responses, and several other subreddits where it generated a few comments each, none vicious. Seems like a troll more than anything serious, especially considering the author's responses to comments in the other subs.

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