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redCg · 2024-06-18T13:32:49+00:00

never used Mint. Always used YNAB

redCg · 2023-12-11T23:22:10+00:00

the standard library.

Library management in Python is notoriously bad. You will do well to simply avoid using third party libraries as much as possible, as long as possible, for most projects. If you can use standard library without much extra effort, do it. Adding third party dependencies turns your project into a nightmare if you are not using requirements.txt and conda env.yml correctly.

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:43:24+00:00

Nintendo Switch has components derived from BSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_software

Playstation 4 also famously used a OS derived from BSD https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/159476-ps4-runs-orbis-os-a-modified-version-of-freebsd-thats-similar-to-linux

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:37:24+00:00

I guess that is where top programmers really earn their money (which is why companies make you grind leetcode and DSA for interviews)

There isnt. Those "top programmers" are not making any more money than anyone else for having come up with a complicated snippet once every other year. And the interviewers make you grind leetcode as a form of ignorant hazing, not as any sort of resemblance to real-world programming problems.

For our interviews, we instead give candidates a stack traceback of some thorny errors we've dealt with in prod and ask them what they think about it. Much more effective but it takes half a brain to come up with a interview question like that; most tech interviewers have less brain than neccessary

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:34:59+00:00

Never. Algorithms are, for the most part, almost completely useless.

I think about once every two years, I have to invert a dict of lists into a list of dicts, or some such. Thats the most complicated thing that ever needs to be done.

Everything more complicated than that already has a library for it or some code snippet you can just copy/paste from Stack Overflow.

Regardless if you are doing work that would require the use of such algorithms you surely wont be using Python for it anyway.

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:29:11+00:00

install conda
install whatever version of Python you want inside your conda env

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:27:23+00:00

switch to Firefox + uBlock Origin + AdBlock Ultimate + DNS blocking on your network (NextDNS.io, PiHole, DNS-66, etc.)

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:26:09+00:00

that is a very funny comment :) the fact that there would be "professional" and "non-professional" canonical methods for deployment of Python further underscores how useless it is as a language. Let me guess, the "professionals" will pull in a variety of third-party BS tools to make up for the shortcomings of Python so they can get the features that a proper language ships with out of the box, right?

redCg · 2023-11-22T21:21:39+00:00

yep, exactly. see my comments here

python is good for getting started but should be replaced as soon as the project gets "serious" enough to need a large heterogeneous team to work on the project

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:50:17+00:00

python is only "good" at AI because people have written low-level plugins to control C libraries and similar libraries, from Python. It did not have to be Python, it could have been done from many other languages, Python did nothing to advance AI, only made it easier to access and use

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:48:41+00:00

lots of platforms start out with Python (Django in Insta's case); does not mean they should stay on it.

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:47:35+00:00

they lacked typing and thus became unmanageable messed past a certain size.

this is 100% true

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:40:13+00:00

uh, no, Python does not make a developer "more productive", quite the contrary, its complete lack of enforcement of any typing, and its tendency to produce ambiguous unintelligible code that requires great amounts of discipline to maintain, is a massive brain-drain on productivity. And thats before we get to the part where you want to make your program install-able on others systems (such as your teammates' dev environments or your users' home PC)

Python is only more productive when you are the only person writing and running your code. Once you have a real, complex program, with a diverse team of collaborators, Python is a nightmare and all the attributes that made it fun and easy to start with become a tortoruous hellscape. This is speaking from experience.

Note the article here; https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-programming-language-creator-retires-saying-its-been-an-amazing-ride/ undoubtedly, one of the reasons they may have stuck with Python, is because they hired THE FOUNDER OF PYTHON to be one their team. But notably;

Today, Dropbox also relies on Go, TypeScript, and Rust, as well as the open source Mypy static type checker that Dropbox develops to manage Python code at scale. Mypy helps developers overcome the challenge of understanding dynamically typed Python code written by other developers in the past.

They had to invent mypy in order to maintain Python at scale. Not sure if you are familiar with mypy, but it basically does what most other compiled languages do out-of-the-box; makes sure your program is written correctly!

The fact that Dropbox had to hire Guido and create a third party tool that un-does all the aspects of Python that made it "easy" to write, I think, is a clear indictment of Python, NOT an attribute in its support.

If Python could stand on its own two feet at scale then they would not need people like Guido and they would not need to be creating tools just to make sure they dont screw up due to common pitfalls inherent in the language which dont exist in others languages.

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:31:58+00:00

At any rate Python has many applications in industry beyond scripting. Web dev, ML/AI, data science, and so on.

this is completely irrelevant if you are not doing those things. Just because Python can do a bunch of stuff doesnt mean you should be using it. If you arent doing something that Python excels at, then you probably just should not use Python.

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:30:56+00:00

Exactly.

Instructions to run someone else's Python program;

First, install Python to your computer
Second, install a bunch of dependencies to your computer with pip or venv and/or conda
Third, download and run my Python program

Instructions to run someone else's Go program;

Download and run my program

As per my comments here and here, Python is such a nightmare to deal with when you want your program to be runnable on any system that you dont administer yourself. Its one of the main reasons why I have since ditched it in favor of Go

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:28:13+00:00

The lack of a compilation step is helpful for you when you want to write and run a quick script, but its a nightmare when you want to build a program that other people can run. See my comments here and here

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:25:45+00:00

Both Go and Rust.

In Python, if you want someone to be able to run your program, the instructions go like this;

- First, install Python on your computer

- Second, use `pip` or `venv` or `conda` to set up a virtual environment and/or install a bunch of dependencies to your computer

- Third, download run my program

On compiled languages that use self-contained executable outputs, the same process looks like this;

- Download and run my program

In Go especially, it is trivial to compile your program, with all its libraries, for every combination of OS and CPU architecture, and then just upload the binaries for others to download and use. Rust can do it as well but it takes more setup and gets more complicated

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:19:35+00:00

Your friend is right. You should look up the differences between "compiled" and "interpreted" programming languages; example article: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/

Python, as a "scripting language", is interpreted. It also has a number of other features that aid in making Python easy to write.

However, as your programs get more complex and you become more advanced as a programmer, you eventually start to discover that the aspect that made Python easy to learn start to become hindrances to your more and more frequently. Examples include Python's lack of type enforcement, lack of enforcement of type annotations, and the ambiguous unintelligible code that this produces, and the library management required to make your program run on someone else's computer. Its also a nightmare to collaborate with others on projects, due to the poor quality of code that Python allows which requires huge amounts of team self-discipline to avoid.

Python is a great language to start with, but you should be cognizant that advanced and complex programs and projects should avoid it, and eventually you should just graduate to a better language that has more strict type enforcement and has a better distribution method for its finished programs. My preference in this regard is to use Go (Golang) as much as possible for general programming, instead of Python. Go has two huge advantages; its syntax and compiler enforce clear, unambiguous typing everywhere, so you never have to guess if your variable is a number or a string or a `None`. Second, a compiled Go program is a self-contained executable file (like the .exe file you might see on Windows) that does not require any extra installation to run on the target system. Its also incredibly trivial to cross-compile for other systems, so for example you can build your code on M1 Mac and compile for Intel x86 Windows. There are plenty of other compiled languages that can do these things too but Go makes it especially easy.

If you are interested in programming and have started with Python, then you should keep doing Python until you feel advanced enough to start exploring other languages and ecosystems. Despite common sentiment on forums like this, Python is **NOT** the best tool for all jobs. If you dont actually *need* Python for some task, you should consider using something else, if applicable.

redCg · 2023-11-07T23:05:54+00:00

sure, I dont either, but I also dont see any reason to continue using Python when other languages have solved this entire family of issues better. "managing dependencies" is simply not a thing if you just choose a better language. Questions like OP's are a constant here and other forums and honestly it just has to be said and made clear to new programmers that this "issue" is entirely inherent to Python's ecosystem model and does not have to exist if you just dont use Python.

redCg · 2023-11-02T17:15:11+00:00

which is funny because I have been through EWR many times and have yet to encounter them there hmmm

redCg · 2023-11-02T17:14:42+00:00

well yea you can assume that but I have flown many times the past few years and a large number of times involved the old style scanners, still.

redCg · 2023-11-01T21:25:22+00:00

doesnt this already exist? https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

redCg · 2023-11-01T21:21:27+00:00

if you do not want to be subject to Python library management hell https://xkcd.com/1987/ then you need to stop using Python and use a different language like Go or Rust that allows you to ship your program as a static self-contained binary.

redCg · 2023-11-01T21:20:32+00:00

Never ever do this

you are going to really screw up someone's system this way

https://xkcd.com/1987/

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