[taosx]

Unpopular opinion: I think I’m going to wait for version 4 /jk. But honestly, I’ve been spoiled by modern languages like Rust, Go, and even TypeScript with modern tooling, strong typing, stability, and performance out of the box. Right now, I’m just interacting with LLMs, not building them.

That said, I remember writing myself a note a few years ago to avoid Python projects. I had to clean up code from all over the company and make it ready for production. Everyone had their own Python version, dependencies missing from requirements.txt, three way conflicts between 2 dependencies and the python version, wildly different styles, and a habit of pulling in as many libraries as possible [1]. Even recalling those memories makes my stomach turn.

I believe constraints make a project shine and be maintainable. I'd prefer if you throw at me a real python instead of a python project.

[1] Yes, I'm aware of containers, I was the unlucky guy writing them.

[theLiminator]

I don't have a strong love for python, but all the tooling the author mentioned has actually made python fairly decent to use now.

Still could be better, but I think Python's really hit its stride now.

[bigiain]

> Unpopular opinion: I think I’m going to wait for version 4

In my personal timeline, people giving up waiting for Perl 6 were a huge source of early Python developers.

[1ncunabula]

What makes TypeScript better than Python? I don't get it..

[Philpax]

Much more capable and reliable type system, paired with comparatively sane package management. This is getting better in the Python world (thank you Astral), but it's still not anywhere near the same.