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Python Overtakes JavaScript as Most Popular Language on GitHub (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)

I code both typescript and python professionally, and python is almost as much of a mess, just a different kind of mess. The package manager ecosystem is all over the place, nobody is agreeing on a build system, and the type system is still unable to represent fairly simple concepts when it comes to function typing. Also tons of libraries just ignore types altogether. I love it, but as a competitor to JavaScript in the messiness department it's not a good horse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

types are always ignored at runtime, they're only useful when developing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, they're useful when developing, which is why it's so frustrating when libraries don't implement types. I'm developing and I'm trying to use a tool that supposedly fits a use case I have, but the tool didn't come with instructions so it's practically useless to me. I could open the tool up and look at its guts to figure it out but are you kidding me no, I'm not going back to the stone age for your tool.