Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:29:05 +0000, Pancho wrote:

On 11/24/24 05:01, rbowman wrote:
 

Using Python means you get uniformity across many disciplines and it's
good enough for most things.  It could have been Perl if it hadn't
gotten stuck in the tar pits, or Ruby, or Go but from whatever twist of
fate occurred it was Python.

 
My niece worked on Python at Twitter. She wasn't complimentary about it
either. She then moved onto Go. But that was doing big web-server stuff.
Large scale Docker setups, maybe Kubernetes.

Horses for courses. I tasked a new hire with developing an interface to
Spidertracks.

https://www.spidertracks.com/

I gave him the requirements but didn't specify a language so he did it
with Go. No big deal other than having to set up a Go environment on the
build machine. Go is what you would expect from three C programmers who
hate C++ and I mean that it a good way. Not sure why they put the
parameter type after the parameter but I can live with that. It's hanging
in there:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

for whatever worth the index has.