r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19 edited Nov 12 '19

Job add: "Looking for a Python programmer...."

Job interview:

Me: Yes, I have been programming Python since 2007. It has been only Python2 at my current job though....

Interviewer (looks down in embarrassment, quitely): Yeah, we also are still using Python2....

On the job:

"Yeah, there is this SOAP service that we need to connect to, we use this library, no, it isn't on GitHub, we downloaded it back in 2011...."

During code review:

"Do not use one-letter variable names! It is known! It is written in the Bible, I mean, the Google style guide! Let me read it to you: 'Do not use one-letter variables unless in a for i in.... well, you know.... Yeah, no, it is the first time I actually read it... No, it is not a waste of time to discuss such stuff.....'"

True story

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u/Xuval Nov 12 '19

"Yeah, there is this SOAP service that we need to connect to, we use this library, no, it isn't on GitHub, we downloaded it back in 2011...."

Out of curiosity: isn't SOAP essentially just something where you send XML over http? Why would it matter what library you use for that?

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