nixCraft 🐧Feb 2, 2024
Why does Python get so much hate? It is literally like a Basic programming language. Easy to learn and guaranteed to get a job because of massive demand.
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Python has become more and more pedantic. It started as a truly exceptional programmer's take on a language which would do what a competent programmer expected. It's evolved into demanding parentheses (print), pissing over tabs and spaces, and my favorite, will reject:

mysock.send("Hello, world.")

("You have to specify a codec.")

A committee of language lawyers and pedants keep pouring sh*t into it. I use the Tauthon fork of Python 2.7 whenever I can.
Feb 3, 2024 at 12:16amWeb
Show threadsedjeFeb 3, 2024

@vandys @nixCraft What about mysock.send(b'The data') ?

Personally I'm super grateful for the consistency introduced in Python3.

Sure, you might need a encode/decode more, but you don't have to guess what data type you're operating on anymore. Explicit rather than implicit is one of the core values after all.

#python