sirdorius @ sirdorius @programming.dev

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Yes, in a good dev workflow mypy errors will not pass basic CI tests to get merged. Types are not really a problem in modern Python workflows, you can basically have a better type checker than Java out of the box (which can be improved with static analysis tools). The biggest problem with Python remains performance.

Just adding that you can also do Python - Rust interop fairly easily with something like https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

So you can gradually adopt Rust for some of the more performance demanding parts and call them from Python. You will get a massive increase just from a simple rewrite. Though you would have the additional burden of 2 build toolchains. But as others have said, Rust is not just about the performance.

Yes, some "guy's" personal taste matters, because if employees hate it, over time they will stop using it. When you get paged at 4AM because some NPE popped up in prod that could be avoided by any sane language you will think twice on the next stack you build. And since when does popularity equal quality?

lysdexic keeps talking about Amazon but has no clue how it works. Take it from someone who recently worked in AWS. You are right in all your points.

I can also tell you without any shred of doubt, that there are many Amazon teams that absolutely hate Java and would rather build their stack on top of anything else (except PHP, which is rightfully prohibited company wide)

Read that again. I didn't mention anything about ecosystem, I said Java, aka the language and JVM. You can patch it up all you want with frameworks, it is still a shit language, had an absolutely useless GC up until Java 9 (20 years into its existence). Though it has gotten slightly less shit in the last couple of years. It is informed from years of working with Java 6 onwards. The fact that I don't agree with your opinion doesn't make me less informed.

I never used Scala 3 but was under the impression that the migration wasn't as bad as Python 2->3 https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/lichess--scala-3/y1sbYzJX

Apparently I used it at its peak. It was the go to language for big data processing at the time

Exactly. The only reason Java is remotely tolerable today is because of influences from those 'fad' languages. Kotlin and Scala were also fads when they came out, they just got adopted because Java was utter shit at the time. Hell, even Java was a fad at some point in time.

"Come on Ricardo, we have to release in prod before the weekend starts"

I played KSP on Epic because it was free, but I hate Epic so much that I just bought it on Steam instead since I really liked the game.

Exactly. Visual clarity is not just for the players, which can get used to anything after thousands of hours of play, but for spectators as well which will not have the same dedication.

Haha, good joke.

It's a competitive game. You have to be able to recognize features as fast as possible and a vibrant color scheme can help with that. And I just like seeing things without turning max brightness and going in the basement. There is no need to set some mood here with a dark gothic color palette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty

That's why it's so weird. You're an adult in that game.

Exactly. And if you you're worried about dirtying your commit history with an unfinished commit, just rebase it out later.