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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

sorry js fans, but python is what an interpreted highlevel language should be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

As for data science using Python, something tells me that this has to do with memory heap capacities. I'm not sure about Python's max memory heap, but Javascript through Node.js seems to have only 512MB. I've been using Node.js to deal with big datasets and my most recent experimentation stumbled across the need of loading 100 million numbers to the RAM: while my PC has a fair amount of physical RAM (12GB) and a great part of it was available, it'll simply error when filling an array. I needed an additional parameter, --max-old-space-size, so Node.js could deal with such amount of data. I didn't try the same task with Python because I'm used to Javascript (yet I'm done some things in Python), but I wonder how much memory can Python hold until an error like "out of memory" happens, because ML models (for example, those hosted and served in HuggingFace) loads training weights with dozens of GBs

[–] Kissaki 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Python’s major pro is its simple, straightforward syntax, which excels at data handling. This has made it popular with novices of all shades […]

For first-timer coders, Python is easier to learn, understand, and adapt than many low-level programming languages […]

Is python being easy to learn actually true? I can see it being easier than low-level programming. But there's other alternatives like C# and Java that certainly seem much better and easier to me. Especially when you consider the ecosystem around only writing code.

Plus, the Python language is a steadfast feature in the desktop Linux software landscape. It’s preinstalled on most Linux distributions, boasts extensive library support, and can be used to fashion very cool (as well as very basic) Qt, GTK, and other toolkit UIs.

It's certainly available, and more readily available on Linux. The whole v2 v3 mess was lackluster. But I guess preinstalled is convenient, and more accessible than installable Java or whatever.

I've never seen JavaScript or Python popularity as evidence or correlating with actual qualities. More with a self-promoting usage. Python was being used in science, then in AI, then AI became popular. To me, it seems like a natural propagation consequence more than simplicity or features over other frameworks and languages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Is python being easy to learn actually true?

I've never found this to be true, I think that's partially because I don't find Python to be very fun to write in, so I don't enjoy it very much, so I don't learn new things about it very quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Is python being easy to learn actually true?

In my experience teaching C to non computer science students It should be. They struggle a lot with variable type and the strict syntax in general, tokenization , etc, but specially ; and {}. They are more visual so I think the forced identification of python helps and they can see to which block a line of code belongs and also it is easy to think one line one statement. When they forgot a semi-colon it is hard to explain that it became one logical line with the next one.

[–] Kissaki 3 points 9 hours ago

eeew (/s)

I have a dislike for both of them. Well, for JavaScript mainly the server-side part. I'm fine with it on web scripting, where it's the only native one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?

[–] Buttons 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Were just waiting on WASM to be able to access the DOM APIs directly, and then all languages will be first class citizens on the web, and then RIP JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Is that even a stated goal? I swear we've been waiting for that to exist for the better part of a decade. It would solve so many issues and comes up in every discussion about Javascript, yet the powers that be seem to have zero interest in pushing this forward.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think so - Javascript doesn't have to ship its language runtime so it will always have a size advantage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need a language runtime if your program has no runtime, right? A rust or C program is just the program, no runtime.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 1 hour ago

Well they still have runtimes, but yes they can be pretty minimal.

You're still shipping a load of libraries that come for free with JS though, e.g. with Rust WASM string formatting and unicode support always ends up being annoyingly huge, and that's built in to JS engines. There's also collections (Map, Set), etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Delphi will be back, baby.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That would be quite an amazing era to live in ahaha ! We can the start the work as a community to match the JavaScript Ecosystem by providing high quality primitives for developers. For that to happen developer UX has to improve though :) but I think WASM definitely has some future.

However to contrast my previous thoughts, I find it pretty sad that people want to move away from JS when we got thing like Bun & Demo 2.0 hitting their prime!

We got benchmarks, cross-runtime stdlib, better registeries, type safety, enough performance, extendability (with runtime plugins & API). I think were approchaing a TS/JS paradigm that's pretty impressive I must admit.

[–] Buttons 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Deno looks interesting.

But Bun choosing Zig makes me think their priorities are not my priorities. As of now, you choose Zig (a not-yet-stable language) because you want to learn Zig and make a neat side-project. Those are not my priorities. Zig offers no unique advantages other than neat new syntax.

Deno chose Rust, which, like Zig, is new, but Rust has reached 1.0 and offers a unique advantage with its safety features. I'm not saying anything about the greatness of Rust here, only that Rust does offer unique advantages, and Rust could be chosen because of general priorities.

Bun chose Zig and then worked backwards and formed their priorities around Zig. Deno formed their priorities and their priorities lead them to Rust.

That's how I feel anyway.

[–] FizzyOrange 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok after reading the article this is bullshit. It's only because they are counting JavaScript and Typescript separately.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Typescript being that popular is great news onto itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We have different concept about what great news is.

Compiling to an interpreted high level language is crazy. I just refuse to believe we haven't got a better solution to yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

As someone who works with typescript daily, you're not wrong. It's an extremely overcomplicated glorified linter that tries and mostly succeeds in catching basic type errors. But it also provides false confidence when you concoct something that shows no errors but doesn't behave how you expect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Every time I open a js file from some project I have to tweak to use on my website, I get a brain aneurysm. that shit should never have been invented. python in the browser is the dream we are not allowed to have.

ps: I am just a hobbyist ! so take it lightly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Idk, my only experience with python is that any app written in it doesn't fucking work, throwing some esoteric error that has nothing to do with the error at hand and then me needing to look up what unholy specific version I need and manually setting up an environment for it. I dread the day when I'll want to try some random project and yet again the only way to run it will be some shady ass python script.

JS is pure crack and has no right being the backbone of the web, but python is borderline unusable in my experience.

[–] logging_strict 1 points 4 hours ago

U are not wrong.

Dependency management is tough and often frustrating. Dealing with resolving dependency conflicts is unavoidable. This area is a constant focus of development, so could see improvements over time.

Some packages to keep an eye on:

pip & setuptools

pip-tools (specifically pip-compile)

https://pypi.org/project/pip-compile-multi/

poetry

Any others i've missed?

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

I avoid anything written in Python. It's not the language at fault it's the ease of entry so you get a lot of low quality software.

[–] oscar 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Somebody should write a python to javascript transpiler for the web...

(please don't actually do that)

[–] RonSijm 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's a Python WASM runtime, if you really want to run python in a browser for some reason...

https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-python

[–] oscar 3 points 1 day ago

Ooh, neat. There's also puepy, which was linked further down in this thread. It's really cool to see more WASM projects pop up.

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