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  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻OP
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    13 days ago

    Yeah JavaScript is a bit weird, semicolons being optional and compulsory at the same time: I remember trying to build an electron example ~5yrs ago and it didn’t work unless I put in the semicolons which the developers omitted.

    Python is just glorified shell scripting. Libraries like numpy are cool but I don’t like the indentation crap, I’m getting used to it because University likes it.

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        12 days ago

        Yes but it’s difficult in a long program to tell which scope you are in or where one ends. I don’t know what is so unfriendly about { and }, my editor can highlight pairs of them, it’s just nicer to work with.

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      12 days ago

      Python is just glorified shell scripting

      Absolutely not, python is an actual programming language with sane error handling and arbitrarily nestable data structures.

      I don’t like the indentation crap

      Don’t be so superficial. When learning something, go with the flow and try to work with the design choices, not against them.

      Python simply writes a bit differently: you do e.g. more function definitions and list comprehensions.

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        12 days ago

        Yeah I meant for that to be a bit inflammatory. I actually don’t mind python apart from the execution speed, but the indentation I find makes it more difficult to read stuff that is extremely nested. I use it mostly for creating plots and basic stuff for my science degree but for any serious project I wouldn’t consider it