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0 pointsextraisland6mo ago0 comments

>The difference between new and init is not knowable from reading their names. The same is true of pickle. By definition, that makes them unintuitive.

By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you are going to have to RTFM. None of things you cherry-picked would be used by a novice either.

Every example you gave are what I call are "Ronsil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...).

Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious when you read the description for the module and works exactly the same to json.dumps(), which works similarly to dumps() methods and terminology in other programming languages.

I feel like I am repeating myself.

> A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.

Nonsense. None of those I would say are RAD. JavaScript literally has no standard lib and requires node/npm these days and that can be a complete rigmarole in itself. C# these relies heavily on DI. I have no idea about Clojure so won't comment.

All the RAD stuff in C# and JS is heavily reliant on third party scripts and templates, that have all sorts of annoying quirks and bloat your codebase. That isn't the case with Python at all

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balencpp6mo ago

R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs`

That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in that file.

And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure. Having a separate REPL "server" that you interact with from your text editor with access to the JVM's ecosystem and standard library inside of a "living" environment and structural navigation from being a LISP is pure RAD. Heck, I often start a REPL "server" inside chrome's devtools with scittle[1] if I need to rapidly and programmatically interact with a website and/or to script something; I haven't been able to do that anywhere else. Even pure JS.

[1]: https://github.com/babashka/scittle

extraislandOP6mo ago

> R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs` > That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in that file.

I've just had a quick look at some of this and they've basically just moved stuff in to the cs file from the proj file. I remember them saying this was on the roadmap when I was doing a .NET 8 refresher.

   // app.cs
   #:package Humanizer@2.*

   using Humanizer;

It also seems anything non-trivial will still require proj files. Which means that they are likely to still have project templates etc.

> And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure.

I am unlikely to ever use Clojure, I certainly won't be able to use it at work.

> Having a separate REPL "server" that you interact with from your text editor with access to the JVM's ecosystem and standard library inside of a "living" environment and structural navigation from being a LISP is pure RAD. Heck, I often start a REPL "server" inside chrome's devtools with scittle[1] if I need to rapidly and programmatically interact with a website and/or to script something; I haven't been able to do that anywhere else. Even pure JS.

All sounds very complicated and is the sort of thing I am trying to get away from. I find all of this stuff more of a hinderance than anything else.

ironmagma6mo ago

> By that standard nothing is.

Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

> Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious

Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

The idea you can't do RAD with libraries is insane. Games are developed rapidly, and a lot of game engines use C#. The fact that you're using Unity, a very large dependency, means nothing regarding whether you can do RAD, which is more about having the right architecture, tooling, and development cycle.

extraislandOP6mo ago

> Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

I believe that people should RTFM. Any arguments that is predicated on not reading the documentation for the language, and then pretending that it is somehow opaque, I am going to dismiss to be quite honest.

> Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

You are still cherry-picking things to attempt to prove a point. I don't find this convincing.

> The idea you can't do RAD with libraries is insane. Games are developed rapidly, and a lot of game engines use C#. The fact that you're using Unity, a very large dependency, means nothing regarding whether you can do RAD, which is more about having the right architecture, tooling, and development cycle.

I didn't say that you can't do RAD with libraries. You didn't understand what I was saying at all.

I can get up and running with Python in mere minutes. It doesn't require a application templates/scaffolding apps to get started (like C# and JS/TS). You just need a text editor and a terminal. Doing that is still quicker and easier to get something working than all the gumpf you have to do with the other languages. I BTW was a JS/TS and .NET for about 15 years

I just wish there were more Python and Go jobs in the UK.

ironmagma6mo ago

C# does not require scaffolding any more than Python does. It comes with a large standard library (aka .NET). Even the NodeJS standard library is quite large now too. How much setup you need really depends on what you are trying to do; if you are using Django, there will be an insignificant amount of that, and some of the most complicated setups I've seen have been with Pylons/Pyramid. If you're just making a CLI app, well I don't see how it's any less setup with Python than with Node. And anyway, RAD isn't about setup time, it's about iteration time.

I feel you on the lack of Go jobs. It seems like they aren't very well globally distributed...

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0 pointsextraisland6mo ago0 comments

>The difference between new and init is not knowable from reading their names. The same is true of pickle. By definition, that makes them unintuitive.

By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you are going to have to RTFM. None of things you cherry-picked would be used by a novice either.

Every example you gave are what I call are "Ronsil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...).

I feel like I am repeating myself.

> A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.

All the RAD stuff in C# and JS is heavily reliant on third party scripts and templates, that have all sorts of annoying quirks and bloat your codebase. That isn't the case with Python at all

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balencpp6mo ago

R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs`

That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in that file.

[1]: https://github.com/babashka/scittle

extraislandOP6mo ago

   // app.cs
   #:package Humanizer@2.*

   using Humanizer;

It also seems anything non-trivial will still require proj files. Which means that they are likely to still have project templates etc.

> And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure.

I am unlikely to ever use Clojure, I certainly won't be able to use it at work.

All sounds very complicated and is the sort of thing I am trying to get away from. I find all of this stuff more of a hinderance than anything else.

ironmagma6mo ago

> By that standard nothing is.

Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

> Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious

Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

extraislandOP6mo ago

> Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

> Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

You are still cherry-picking things to attempt to prove a point. I don't find this convincing.

I didn't say that you can't do RAD with libraries. You didn't understand what I was saying at all.

I just wish there were more Python and Go jobs in the UK.

ironmagma6mo ago

I feel you on the lack of Go jobs. It seems like they aren't very well globally distributed...

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