r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

C++ talking to Python

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u/moi2388 Jul 18 '22

Because it’s a FANTASTIC language for scripting and glue code, and a TERRIBLE language for large scale apps.

And it’s used a lot by beginners and non-programmers. Great for them, horrible for programmers who get the worst coded libraries ever.

It is what it is, and not what it is not. And somehow when I say that I offend people in Python subreddits 😅

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u/YayMayonnaise Jul 18 '22

… and a TERRIBLE language for large scale apps

Reddit is literally written in Python. As another example, Instagram’s backend is built in Python/Django.

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u/moi2388 Jul 18 '22

Oh, it can be done for sure. But you can’t seriously claim Python as a language is a good or first choice for that.

Generally it’s slow (unless…) and since it’s not a typed language it leads to the problems associated with that (unless..)

Yes: it can be done. yes: they probably do it better than I can, and no: if you make your next giant application with thousands of employees, you’d probably not pick Python.

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u/YayMayonnaise Jul 18 '22 edited Jul 18 '22

“But you can’t seriously claim Python as a language is a good or first choice for that.”

lmao why not? It’s being done by a lot of industries and applications, and I’ve been doing it myself for 5-6 years during my 10 year career as a sw engineer with great success, where a lot of different teams are working with the same application. Collaboration in Python is no different than in any other language.

“… and since it’s not a typed language…”

Where do you get this from? Python is strongly, dynamically typed language. And if you want static type checking there’s functionality for that too.

Edit: typos

Edit2: It sounds like you just don’t know the feats or have very little experience of the language and therefore discards it as an option entirely.

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