DreamButt

Honestly man it just sounds like you have struggled with dynamic languages and by extension prefer static (compiled) ones. Which is totally fine you don’t have to like everything. But I do think you’re missing the real issue with “everything looks good.” It’s a lack of experience with the tool. It doesn’t matter if you’re using something as strict as Rust or dynamic as Lisp. “Everything looks good,” is always bad. You should know “this is how this works,” which is just not something a newbie can handle when they still don’t know the difference between pass-by-reference and pass-by-value (or that those words even exist!)

What issue is that you think is unique to python?

Hey at least they didn’t have to trace a bug in their core framework. Only to find it is both in the issue tracker and 10 years old, and there is no offical fix. So you have to make a hacky patch yourself

As someone who has taught people a variety of languages. No. This happens regardless of what language you choose. It’s just a universal programmer experience to get frustrated at your work

Oh yeah the leftpad incident. Was fun watching that from a distance

Given how software is a giant Jenga tower made of smaller Jenga towers it’s amazing any of it works at all

Fives years of fucking around and breaking shit. Worth it though

Don’t forget the comments!

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Yes I would

Are you trying to imply that python is both fast and strongly typed? As for the syntax that’s largely a matter of opinion. Most ruby-enjoyers I know specifically call out the syntax as something they like

Also I’m not qualified to comment on Lua so I won’t. Most of my language exploration has been with languages many people famously hate (perl and lisp)

All of that is to say I generally don’t think talking about what language is “best” is really a productive conversation. I was mostly curious if you had an intimate understanding of the tradeoffs or otherwise a strong opinion about how it was constructed

Curious what use case you have for needing a do-while. Honestly I barely use while at all, a good ol for-loop normally does the trick

Ruby is a really nice language especially when taken in the context of it’s time. Curious why you feel it isn’t worth being someone’s favorite?

not all problems are worth busting out the heavy machinery (until they are)

It’s important to let your brain relax and come up with more creative solutions :)

I’ve only used node a little and it was mostly during a drunken night of ferver. Are the errors really that bad?

Googling solutions to your problems is literally the core skillet for debugging

Or worse the only google result is to a forum conversation for your core framework that has been open for 8 years and has never been fixed

Honestly finding someone who can relax and intergrate into your team culture is arguably more important that anything