I sometimes wish my employer didn't know that I can write Python code, so that I would never be assigned front-end work. I prefer to deal with programs that take lists of numbers and return lists of other numbers.

(I'm not as bad as one guy I used to work with, because at least I accept ASCII input. His backend code only took binary-encoded configuration files for no reason I can think of except maybe to punish anyone except himself who tried to use it.)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Who is using python for frontend?

[–] odium 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Flask and django I assume

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that backed code? Unless your using templating..

[–] odium 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could do templating with jinja, or do some data visualization with bokeh. I think there's also something called dash. I don't know much about any of them though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

definitely not what people are talking about when they say front end though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If flask is frontwnd then im a full stack developer and definatly not some little code monky server raw html forms written by chatgpt with normatting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Using streamlit works suprisingly well for frontend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's pytermgui for cli.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm terrified by this binary config file. Why?! Was he writing C and said "fuck it, memcpy"?

Edit: I suppose it would be more like "fuck it, fprintf(f, (char*)my_config_object, sizeof(my_config_object))"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, python has pickle and people use that to store config. It's a weird practice, and totally unsafe, but it works well enough. This wouldn't be that different.