• boletus
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    341 year ago

    Python is fine as a language I guess

    But python programmers give it a bad name. I’ve never seen “well written” python code, it’s always shit that’s been thrown together cos it works.

    • @herrvogel
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      181 year ago

      I use python exclusively when I want to quickly throw some shit together that nobody’s ever gonna spend any time maintaining, so that tracks.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Doesn’t Python 3 have types? I’ve seen a few well typed codebases and it really made the code much easier to understand. Or is it just that it’s not checking them strongly enough?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

          • boletus
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            11 year ago

            The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.

      • boletus
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        11 year ago

        I think python is good as it is for what it can do, mostly because I have no reason to use it.

        What we need is lua with types!

        • Shush
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          11 year ago

          Have you heard of Typescript-to-lua? I used to do Dota modding (which is in lua) with TSTL and it works great!

          You write TS code (using Typescript syntax that includes types) and it is compiled into lua.

          Wonder if that could be an alternative that can work for you.