alexkehayias

The last serious Python I wrote was 2.7 (I narrowly avoided the python3 migration fun) about 5 or 6 years ago. I’m picking it back up, but I’m having trouble sifting through the current state of the art.

- Which typing library do folks use?

- Is Django still the best?

- What do you use for servers? Gunicorn?

- Any improvements with the interpreter to make it more reloadable?

- Is Celery still a thing or do you just use Lambda?

- What’s ideal for deploying Python? Ec2 and some Ansible? App engine? Something else?

- How about writing APIs? GraphQL?

- How about parallelism? Multi processing and futures for concurrency?

- What’s the async story? What should I be looking at for async web frameworks?

- Numpy still great? Sci py?

Thank you in advance!

So I built a game engine in ClojureScript over the course of several years to scratch a personal itch. I wanted to express 2D web games using a functional and declarative style that supports my love for the fast feedback loop of REPL driven development. After lots of big life changes, development has stalled, but I keep coming back to it as a source of infinite curiosity and creative work. I want to share this here to gather feedback from the community and share some of the ideas that came from building this.

What do you think about the approach I took here [0]? Do the goals of the project (functional, declarative, repl-driven) resonate with you? As an example of what it looks like in real usage you can see the demo app in the repo. A more detailed discussion of the implementation can be seen in a talk I gave at Clojure West [1].

[0] https://github.com/alexkehayias/chocolatier [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1ie0pIO_E