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Almost all my tool/skill scripts are in python purely because the standard library has almost everything under the sun in it.
by tick_tock_tick 2mo ago
Almost all my tool/skill scripts are in python purely because the standard library has almost everything under the sun in it.
- schrodinger 2mo agoAre you familiar with the Go standard library? It’s notorious for its comprehensiveness and how often you can write zero dependency applications as a result. And there’s a reason: the Go designers were huge Python fans, so leaned on its design quite a bit. They essentially wanted to make a modern Python with first class support for static typing and highly scalable parallelism, not just concurrency.
- schrodinger 2mo agoIt's too late to edit, but in retrospect I realize that the first sentence of that comment sounded awfully snarky, and I didn't mean it to. I apologize, and please trust it was asked in good faith.