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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 4 weeks agoScared of snakes?
I am more scared of people (ab-)using Python for production ready software outside the Data Science world.
I am even more scared of them, if they use the following arguments to justify their decision: “(…) enabling contributions from programmers of all skill levels and keeping server costs down”
But you know. It is open source. There is nothing that stops them from doing this. That’s fine. I’m just out.
Wait until you learn how much many Linux systems relies on python.
As for “enabling contributions from programmers of all skill levels and keeping server costs down”
Thats no issue so as long expert maintainers are code reviewing any pull request and not letting garbage commits in.
Not to be a shill… but lots of commercial systems have run on python: inoxoft.com/…/top-23-applications-made-with-pytho…
Not just for data science, but in core services, including Dropbox, Instacart, Instagram, and Reddit. It’s pretty good at getting something up and running, and there are lots of published tricks for optimizing it so it scales.
It's a weird hill to die on, but you're absolutely entitled to do it.
Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
time to shill !snakes@lemmy.world and !royalpython@lemmy.world if you like em