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Python’s new t-strings

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620 points tambourine_man | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.356s | source
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nu11ptr ◴[21 Apr 25 11:07 UTC] No.43750542[source]▶
Personally, this feels like a feature that is too focused on one problem to be a general feature. Python is getting huge. When people ask me if Python is easy and simple to learn I have to say "the basics, yes, but to to learn the whole language... not so much".

I feel like in this sense Go really is interesting by rejecting almost every single feature. Honestly not sure generics were worth it as they add a lot of complexity, and while they are nice, I don't need them very much. The general idea to keep the language at its original focus is the right idea IMO. C++ would be the most extreme case where the language itself barely resembles what it started out as.

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1. acdha ◴[21 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43754916[source]▶
There’s an interesting trade off around maintenance. Python’s stdlib means there’s more consistency across projects and you can assume basic things like error handling which you had to check individually on each Go program, which is the kind of stuff which adds up when you have a lot of small programs.

This is especially noticeable with AWS Lambda where you can have a lot of useful stuff running for years without doing more than bumping the runtime version every year or two, but also that is one highly opinionated architecture so it’s not globally optimal for everyone.