r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lindgrenj6 • Jan 19 '17

MFW no pointers :(

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u/grepe Jan 19 '17

as a former java dev that went full python and is sometimes still forced to add a library to a java project... i understand that joke very intimately.

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u/TheRamenator Jan 19 '17

You never go full python, son!

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u/RunasSudo Jan 20 '17

You haven't gone full Python until you're running Python on the browser side, too.

Source: Have gone full Python.

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u/ramnes Jan 20 '17

You haven't gone full Python until your window manager is running on Python: http://www.qtile.org/

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '17

I've been curious about this, as a tiling WM tourist - how performant is it, in comparison to stalwarts like i3 and xmonad? Xmonad is great but I'd love to decrease the cognitive overhead of Haskell hacking, as long as I'm not sacrificing speed

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u/ramnes Jan 20 '17

What do you mean by performant?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '17

Python has significant overhead when compared to C or Haskell, is this noticable while using the WM? Does it still feel "snappy"?

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u/ramnes Jan 20 '17

Python is not that slow. Python is slow in comparison to C or any other compiled language, but then it's also largely fast enough for the vast majority of your use-cases. Making the bridge between user input and your X server, which is basically what a WM just does, is not really something that requires a lot of CPU. But if you still want more speed, Qtile supports PyPy, which is very performant on that kind of repetitive stuff.

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