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Content Python is but a bunch of poorly cobbled together C libraries that are bundled into a dozen of conflicting distributions. CHANGE MY MIND

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Content Storing data All data stored in database All data stored in a Google Sheet, accessible via an API Each user's data is stored as XML in a separate text file A disk partition is created for each user, with the user ID as the partition name, sized exactly to fit the required user data A group of developers learn user data by heart and data is requested on demand via Mechanical Turk Interns use post-its to store the location of the base64-encoded data within the decimals of Pi CommitStrip.com

Learning a new programming language is like driving this backwards SUV. You think you're moving forward, but everything is just... wrong. The syntax looks vaguely familiar, yet somehow completely backwards from what you're used to. First week with Rust after 10 years of Python and suddenly I'm fighting with the borrow checker like I'm trying to parallel park this monstrosity. "But this worked in my previous language!" Yeah, and cars are supposed to have their engines in the front, yet here we are.

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Ah, the eternal battle of type systems! In the top panel, we see C language with its compiler ready to stab you if you dare mix an int with a float. "Is that a char* you're passing to a function expecting void*? PREPARE TO DIE." Meanwhile, Python in the bottom panel is like that rebellious teenager: "Types? Yeah, I've heard of them. More like suggestions, really." Your variable can identify as an integer on Monday and a string by Wednesday afternoon. The IDE just stands there with a sign saying it could warn you, but honestly, it's not paid enough to care. The duality of programming: strict typing that makes you feel like you're disarming a bomb vs. dynamic typing where everything's made up and the types don't matter until runtime explodes in production.