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312 points chmaynard | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 23:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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umvi ◴[29 Aug 25 00:55 UTC] No.45058768[source]▶
I used to love Python, back when it was basically just an alternative to perl for scripting. Now it strikes fear into my heart when I encounter something largish written in Python because it usually means "super slow bloated researchy untyped ai/math code that's a nightmare to work with"
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1. pjmlp ◴[29 Aug 25 06:17 UTC] No.45060792[source]▶
That has always remained my sole use of Python, scripting OSes and applications, my use of Tcl for application software trained me avoiding languages that always require going down to C for any performance related task.

Best of all with this approach, is that what is in the standard library suffices, no need to mess up with venvs, PYTHONPATH, or whatever is the current trend.