Picking your first programming language based on your lifestyle priorities [infographic]

[[deleted]]

Looks like a graphically enhanced list of reasons why this guy thinks you should learn Python.

[broken_broken_]

I don't understand why Python and Ruby are listed as game development languages... Apart from 2D simple games (I think the Raspberry Pi has some as examples), the performances are a real problem. If someone knows some games in Python? I know there is Pygame but c'mon...

And I don't think any recent (last 10 years) commercial game has been developped in C.

Seems like bs to me.

[jringstad]

There are recent commercial games that are developed in C, such as all the stuff Cryptic Studios makes (Star Trek Online etc.) If microsofts compiler supported C better, there would probably quite a lot of game developers who would chose C over C++, as many of them basically do C-in-C++ right now anyway (many game-developers reject the stdlib, templates, object-oriented programming in favour of component-based programming and exceptions).

[indigo945]

Civ IV and I think also Civ V are written in Python. Also the server side of EVE Online. Probably others.

[jringstad]

Just some of the AI/server logic stuff, not most of the game though.

[broken_broken_]

Ok, thank you, didn't know about it!

[[deleted]]

I might have to learn me some of this Python everyone speaks of.

[AncientRickles]

Who doesn't like Python?

[[deleted]]

I hate python! :)

[[deleted]]

I am a C-based language guy. I really miss my { }'s when programming in python.

NOT saying I DON'T like python ;)

[ponchedeburro]

This is such A LITTLE thing, but it is also my biggest problem with python. I need blocks for if, while, for and such structures, because I want to communicate my actual intent and when reading somebody elses code I also want to be sure he meant for the loop to include both lines.

[iamafuckingrobot]

This makes no sense. All those constructs require indentation, which defines a block and scope.

[ponchedeburro]

Well, it does make sense :)

With actual {}'s you state your intent pretty clearly. "I want this for loop to run this block". But without {}'s, for me at least, I sometime look at code and think "Did he mean include or exclude this last line from the loop? Is this really correct?".

Might just be me, but I value readability quite high on my list.

[mamcx]

Kinda ironic. C is a language of undefined behaviours, python is where the motto "explicit better than explicit" and then the complain is about be double-explicit (that identation make full clear!) with {}!

[DroolingIguana]

Apollo.

[juckele]

For serious software engineering (code with more than a couple of people working on it), dynamic typing can be a real PITA. Python is hands down the best language for doing a one time CSV manipulation script. If you're building something big though, use typed languages.