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A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.
Holds ARAlice Ryhl
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Same subject: Python
Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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The language best suited to AI is simply the one the models have seen most of in training, which is why they do so well on JavaScript, TypeScript and Python.
Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
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Writing lines of Python or C++ may stop being necessary; understanding how code, computer systems and products work will not.
Holds ESElizabeth Stone
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A programming language is a ten-year play: version one has issues, version two fixes them, version three is finally good — and only then does adoption start.
Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
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The programming language is now English, and it is a more beautiful one than Ruby.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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The overhead of learning a new programming language no longer justifies sticking to the two you know: start writing in a third now, without learning it first.
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Simon Willison
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The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together.
Holds CMCasey Muratori
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Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.
Holds THThePrimeagen