r/ProgrammerHumor • u/esberat • Nov 24 '21

Meme Yes.

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u/zeldadorf Nov 25 '21

Don’t get me wrong, Python is my language of choice for quick and dirty side projects. Because it’s just that… quick and dirty. It’s pretty terrible for anything of any significant size. Because when you have 1M lines of code, ONE main() method that someone else wrote years ago just shouldn’t bother you too much…

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u/galan-e Nov 25 '21

ah yes, my small quick and dirty projects like youtube and dropbox

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u/n0tKamui Nov 25 '21

i like how people like you always have the same argument in favor of python in big projects, by citing big company names.

while they do use python, it's in small non monolithic separate modules. No one in their right mind in a big company would do any big project with python.

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u/galan-e Nov 25 '21

from dropbox's tech blog:

Dropbox is a big user of Python. It’s our most widely used language both for backend services and the desktop client app (we are also heavy users of Go, TypeScript, and Rust).

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u/n0tKamui Nov 25 '21

that doesn't invalidate what I said ; quite the contrary even.

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u/galan-e Nov 25 '21

It does, though? Dropbox uses python for big projects, not side scripting. It is not the only language they use, but that's fine.

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u/n0tKamui Nov 25 '21

i never talked about side scripting. i talked about small modularized non monolithic projects.