I encourage every one to at least stop writing code in Python.
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The accessibility of Python is overrated. It's a language with warts and issues just like the others. Also the lack of static typing is a real hindrance (yes I know about mypy).
I use python for some basic scripting and I don't write anything huge. Most of these do roughly what I would expect.
> __new__ is a static method that’s responsible for creating and returning a new instance (object) of the class. It takes the class as its first argument followed by additional arguments.
> In Python, __init__ is an instance method that initializes a newly created instance (object). It takes the object as its first argument followed by additional arguments
> Python id() function returns the “identity” of the object. The identity of an object is an integer, which is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during its lifetime.
The pickel.dumps() is the only one that is a bit odd until to find out what the pickle module does.
> The accessibility of Python is overrated.
The accessibility isn't overrated. Python has something that is missing from a lot of languages that isn't often talked about. It is really good a RAD (Rapid Application Development). You can quickly put something together that works reasonably well, it also is enough of the proper language that you can build bigger things in it.
> It's a language with warts and issues just like the others.
Like every other one.
A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.
By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you are going to have to RTFM. None of things you cherry-picked would be used by a novice either.
Every example you gave are what I call are "Ronsil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...).
Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious when you read the description for the module and works exactly the same to json.dumps(), which works similarly to dumps() methods and terminology in other programming languages.
I feel like I am repeating myself.
> A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.
Nonsense. None of those I would say are RAD. JavaScript literally has no standard lib and requires node/npm these days and that can be a complete rigmarole in itself. C# these relies heavily on DI. I have no idea about Clojure so won't comment.
All the RAD stuff in C# and JS is heavily reliant on third party scripts and templates, that have all sorts of annoying quirks and bloat your codebase. That isn't the case with Python at all
That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in that file.
And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure. Having a separate REPL "server" that you interact with from your text editor with access to the JVM's ecosystem and standard library inside of a "living" environment and structural navigation from being a LISP is pure RAD. Heck, I often start a REPL "server" inside chrome's devtools with scittle[1] if I need to rapidly and programmatically interact with a website and/or to script something; I haven't been able to do that anywhere else. Even pure JS.
I've just had a quick look at some of this and they've basically just moved stuff in to the cs file from the proj file. I remember them saying this was on the roadmap when I was doing a .NET 8 refresher.
// app.cs
#:package Humanizer@2.*
using Humanizer;
> And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure.
I am unlikely to ever use Clojure, I certainly won't be able to use it at work.
> Having a separate REPL "server" that you interact with from your text editor with access to the JVM's ecosystem and standard library inside of a "living" environment and structural navigation from being a LISP is pure RAD. Heck, I often start a REPL "server" inside chrome's devtools with scittle[1] if I need to rapidly and programmatically interact with a website and/or to script something; I haven't been able to do that anywhere else. Even pure JS.
All sounds very complicated and is the sort of thing I am trying to get away from. I find all of this stuff more of a hinderance than anything else.