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Python rant
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abstract: >-
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Python is the best language in the world for code you intend will only be used by yourself,
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used only a few times, then thrown away. It also works great for small trivial programs.
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For large programs intended to be used many times by many people on
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many different machines, it is a disaster.
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...
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The bigger it gets, the more it traps you into code that is only going to run
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correctly on your one particular development system and that no one else is
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going to be able to modify and add to, so investing in python
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in anything you intend to be widely used is a trap. Open source
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python is also a trap, because no one else is going to be able
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to modify and add to it.
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If I try to start modifying Bitmessage, I will surely fail. It is a bigger python
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program than anyone except the original developer can maintain and modify.
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In this sense, no large open source python program is truly open source. PHP
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has the same problem, though to lesser degree. Javascript likewise. Has
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improved considerably, but still sucks. But typescript which is compiled to javascript is OK.
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so all big projects with many developers use typescript rather than javascript.
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Or they die before they get big.
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