I haven’t had skin in the game for years, so my opinion isn’t super valuable here.
Anyway, some of this is valid, albeit a lot of that is either well trodden (eg py3 gripes, pros/cons of significant whitespace) or host environment/tooling specific (eg where a thing installs `python` and which version without additional qualification and whether that’s stable).
But some of this is surprisingly mind boggling! I interrupted my reading of it somewhere in the beginning of
> Reason 7: Pass By Object Reference
The author spends quite a lot of time expressing familiarity with not just their preferred language C but demonstrating fairly intimate familiarity with several dynamic languages… several which have a reputation for exhibiting or even exacerbating exactly the same problem described. They even allude to some of that earlier. Huh?
I’d already glossed over the possibility to rename imports gripe (I think most module systems support this? Certainly the ones which augment the local namespace without any mechanism for disambiguation do, otherwise good luck ever getting anything done!)
If author is here reading, I’m not posting this to pile on, but to express honest confusion about how you’ve selected these gripes and how they line up for you with the seemingly greener pastures referenced. I don’t even much like Python either! I’m just getting a lot of cognitive dissonance trying to understand the perspective.
Anyway, some of this is valid, albeit a lot of that is either well trodden (eg py3 gripes, pros/cons of significant whitespace) or host environment/tooling specific (eg where a thing installs `python` and which version without additional qualification and whether that’s stable).
But some of this is surprisingly mind boggling! I interrupted my reading of it somewhere in the beginning of
> Reason 7: Pass By Object Reference
The author spends quite a lot of time expressing familiarity with not just their preferred language C but demonstrating fairly intimate familiarity with several dynamic languages… several which have a reputation for exhibiting or even exacerbating exactly the same problem described. They even allude to some of that earlier. Huh?
I’d already glossed over the possibility to rename imports gripe (I think most module systems support this? Certainly the ones which augment the local namespace without any mechanism for disambiguation do, otherwise good luck ever getting anything done!)
If author is here reading, I’m not posting this to pile on, but to express honest confusion about how you’ve selected these gripes and how they line up for you with the seemingly greener pastures referenced. I don’t even much like Python either! I’m just getting a lot of cognitive dissonance trying to understand the perspective.