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[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 15 points 2 months ago

Good meme. However I do think that most people starting out will not really have to deal with any of those issues in the first few years apart from maybe the pip/venv/poetry/etc choice. But whatever they'll pick it'll probably work well enough for whatever they're doing. When I started out I didn't use any external libraries apart from pygame (which probably came pre-installed). I programmed in the IDLE editor that came with Python. I have no idea how I functioned that way, but I learnt a lot and hat plenty of fun.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

What about the issue where people try to install new version of python sometimes try to uninstall the "old" pre-installed version on a linux system and thus borking the whole s

Definitely not me, anymore

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

I may or may not have done this haha. I'm a threat to any working piece of software, just enough knowledge to be able to break shit and too little knowledge to avoid breaking shit. I think after all these years I've mostly learnt my lesson though. The package manager is the boss, and if I don't like it I have to work around it without upsetting the package manager

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I think experienced programmers may have a different route to a degree. A number of years in one language, for instance, including fairly complex production settings, etc. and having to transition to python for a new job or company or decision from someone higher up the food chain. I did it from a largely perl and PHP background for both Rust (a tiny bit of experience before, but not a super complex environment) and Go (zero to prod in a few months dropping in rewritten portions of the former PHP monolith). I can talk about memory usage, race conditions, etc. but would be completely screwed with anything internal to python or its quirks.

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