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0 pointssimonask13d ago0 comments

Python is locally readable. Reasoning about larger systems in Python is where things get really hard, because you have to describe how many small individually readable things interact with each other in a very limited vocabulary.

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bazoom4213d ago

For larger systems you create your own abstractions, so comprehensibility of larger systems does not depend so much on the language.

bryanrasmussen13d ago

hmm, yeah given LLM's ability to churn out lots of code quickly and be overly verbose in that code that is a potential downside. That it could in a quick one time edit create so much intellectual overhead that Python might be the wrong language to understand what is going on.

What language do you feel is easier to reason about in the large?

hiAndrewQuinn13d ago

Haskell would be my vote, and Rust too, actually, both because of their very strong type systems. The type system lets you very quickly figure out what something is before you figure out what something does, and it turns out that separating those two concerns as hard as those two languages do often results in doing the whole one-two punch faster.

ant6n13d ago

That’s true. Once you have APIs and want to use classes to create larger structures, the language is full of warts.

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