undefined | Better HN

0 pointssoganess3y ago0 comments

I'd like to see the receipts on your statement.

Easy examples I use every day: ML and Quantum Computing libraries.

There is a depth to the Python ecosystem that can't be matched anywhere else.

Honestly, I'm sure I will get a ton of flack for this, but I really dislike Python. I use it every day and have for years and not only has it failed to grow on me (like most languages do), I've learned to dislike it more with each year. That said, I'm locked in. Outside of Python the libraries available are abandoned research projects or hobby tools, at least when it comes to my areas of focus.

0 comments

cedws3y ago

Those are really exceptions because researchers love Python. Outside of those areas, there's really nothing special that Python's ecosystem brings to the table.

I'd really like to see machine learning stuff in languages other than Python so that there's less friction in experimenting. I know that would require prying it from researchers' cold dead hands though.

zeroCalories3y ago

Those aren't exceptions, those are the norm. Yeah Go has really slick libraries to support your favorite protocol, but that's the easy part of programming. If I want to hack together something using computer vision, do some amature data science, or use cutting edge scripts written by security researchers, that's gonna be Python. Pretty much all code that I would wanna steal for my project is written in Python, or has Python bindings as its main way of using it.

pjmlp3y ago

So lets make it more mudane, where is Zope for Go?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse