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What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I don’t write fully functional programs, but small specific scripts for different tasks.

This is exactly why your experience is different and you like Python better than many others. You are using Python as it was meant to be used and where it excels; for small scripts.

When people say they don't like Python they mean that Python does a really, really bad job when it comes to larger systems. Static analysis becomes exponentially more important in larger systems and Python has basically 0 of that.

But as long as you stick to relatively small stuff (less than a few thousand lines), Python is pretty nice and fast to develop in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So you are saying using python to write the server for a federated multimedia messenger is a bad idea.

Let me tell you, I'm shocked😲

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

also just plain readability. Indentation-based scoping is horrible for larger codebases. Maybe if it was a purely-functional language like Haskell where this sort of scoping works better and all effects are tightly contained. But most larger codebases tend to use python in OO way and that can get messy pretty quickly. Damn, if python had a piping operator like elixir that'd be of a lot of help, actually. Plus there is so much legacy code in a language that had e.g. ternaries long before adding something seemingly so fundamental as switch-case.