On Monday, 28 April 2014 at 09:41:43 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 09:27 +0000, John Colvin via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
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As with all these things, YMMV; there are many large,
successful Python projects.
I think this is a crucially important thing to remember: YMMV.
This is not a black and white, D or Python. Different
organization and
projects will have different metrics for choice, meaning that
Python, D,
Go, C++, Java, Groovy, etc. all have valuable roles in the
world. Choice
of programming language is about making the least worst choice
in a
given context.
The fact that I am rewriting a Python + GTK project in D + GtkD
does not
mean I now no longer use Python, it is that the context has
changed,
making a change of language appropriate.
Although I stick by the YMMV, I use python 3 several hours a day
and it's caused me no end of pain with very little gain. If it
wasn't for pandas and (I shudder to say it) matplotlib, I really
wouldn't have any reason to stay.
What features does python, as a language (syntactical preferences
aside), actually have to recommend it over D (assuming drepl* or
similar became full-featured)? This is definitely not a
rhetorical question, it could be useful to D development.
* http://drepl.dawg.eu/ and https://github.com/MartinNowak/drepl
