Oh that’s sad. I was hoping for that the title of the post was misleading, and it just meant that the “experimental” flag was removed. Well, sadly no.
Little rant: My eyes hurt from reading 100% white on 100% black background… Wish sites stopped doing it. Thank god Firefox has this builtin reader view functionality.
Little rant: My eyes hurt from reading 100% white on 100% black background… Wish sites stopped doing it. Thank god Firefox has this builtin reader view functionality.
I love the high contrast, especially on cheaper displays. Maybe it helps to lower the screen brightness?
Changing brightness back and forth just for the site isn’t something I would do. But besides that, I don’t think it works (tested for 5 seconds). The better approach is changing the coloring of the site, and I can do that with Firefox itself or one of the available extensions. But the fact that I have to do this is in my opinion a broken styling on the site. And I mean its broken for me, not an universal take here. Everyone is different, and if you like it, then well you like it and that’s totally fine.
BTW having a white background and black font color has the same contrast, and it doesn’t hurt my eyes. So its not just the contrast that makes my eyes bleed. For short text, it’s not really an issue, but for longer ones.
Oh, I’ve misread your original post. The page had a white background with black text for me, and that looked ok. But a complete black background and white text really isn’t optimal.
I love white text on black background, it’s so odd how different people view this.
I think it’s the right call. The issue with CPython’s JIT is that it isn’t really a true JIT like you would find in Java or .NET and suffers from the same issue that auto vectorization did in C++: you had to understand the internals of the CPython runtime to properly utilize it which isn’t a great developer experience.
little rant
Its a valid rant.
do you know the stylus extension?
Yes off course. There are also other alternatives, but its nice to have a builtin functionality. Also each of these plugins had their own quirks in one or another form (don’t ask me what the details was, I don’t remember).
Wait, I was hinting at this because I was hoping to get noticed as the creator of the most popular style for this site 🥲 : https://userstyles.world/style/933/lwn-dark-breeze-enhanced
but I just realized I don’t have the extension on mobile yet the theme is dark. What’s going on? they did update the website and you still have light theme?
Nice! Well, I never paid attention to user created styles and was always doing it myself. From the screenshot, I have to say, it looks really good and is tempting. I’ll consider it, but really don’t want to install more extensions if possible.
I am eagerly waiting for someone to vibe code a version of Python that isn’t shit. Probably not far off I expect.
Wouldn’t be python then 🤣
Just rewrite it in Rust
My rule of thumb: If I wouldn’t write it in bash, I won’t write it in Python. Anything more serious gets a grown up language
My rule of thumb is if it uses more than one variable, an if statement, parameter expansion, or string interpolation I just write it in python with argparse and file input.
Much cleaner, easier to reason about, and self documenting.
and self documenting
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bash and Python are very different. Bash uses your system as programming language, while Python offers a lot more. Python is in many cases a good solution that does not need extra work for programming languages to compile. If you don’t think that Python is a grown up language, then you seem to be misinformed.
I think his point was that Python is more useful for one-off stuff and I’d claim that much better than bash at those kinds of things.
But Python has so many quirks and bad designs. Function scoped variables, multiple inheritance, backwards comprehension syntax, poor pattern matching, poor handling of None and so much is convention based so you don’t get an error if you did it wrong. Python classes aren’t serializable (not even data classes).
Coupled with it’s awful performance I’m convinced the reason people use it is because they don’t know anything else.
Python may be a grown up language but it’s still a pretty awful language for ad-hoc scripting. It really wants to believe that you only use it for writing Python projects damnit! You can beat it into submission, but as soon as you start typing
importin a situation that isn’t a nice pure Python package it will say “whatchulookinatmate? Youwannafight?”Don’t believe me? Explain how relative imports work.
I write Bash, Python and Rust. And I love writing in Python. It helped me so much and prefer it over almost any compiled language. Bash is completely different beast and not a replacement for Python and vice versa. Just because import works different in the language than the ones you like, does not mean the language is crap. For any questions about the import system, have a look at https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html#package-relative-imports .
It depends on how you use the language, as a scripting like language or a full replacement for compiled languages. I personally don’t build packages with Python. BTW you can even compile Python scripts to binary machine code, and I don’t mean bundles, but real compilation process. It even speeds up the performance of the program.
I write C# and Python, and C# is much more expressive than Python is and performs about 10x to 77x better. C# has much better pattern matching and has operators to deal with
nulland support for it in the type system. C# records can be serialized without issue (Python’s built in JSON serializer can only serialize dictionaries). Althoigh variable scoping in C# isn’t perfect (object patterns in if statements pollute the outer scope) variables at least aren’t just function scoped like in Python. You can define user defined primitve types in C# which enables bettrr support for domain typing than what is possible in Python.Just because import works different in the language than the ones you like, does not mean the language is crap.
No, it means it’s unsuitable for scripting, if you need anything more than a single file. Better than Bash of course (not hard).
Python is good for scripting. If you start importing and having multiple packages involved with relative imports, that’s no longer “scripting”. We have standard library and the package manager for a reason. I think you are conflicting with full fledged applications and scripting.
my rule is much less strict: more than 3 files gets migrated. large Python projects are a nightmare to maintain, and performance is bad at scale. for quick experiments or data analysis it’s great.
but honestly Nushell has replaced Python for me for the most part, unless i need a specific Python package (and often i can just wrap that in a small runnable script with
uv)i just write the critical parts in c and glue them together with python, because if it’s one thing it’s good at it’s ffi.
Do you have a codeberg? I’d love to see how you use c and python together
it’s all work stuff unfortunately. it’s just basic ctypes stuff though.
Why bother with the significant pain of FFI when you can just write the whole thing in Rust?
Also “the critical parts” is mostly a myth. After a small amount of optimisation, the vast majority of programs do not have nice isolated hotspots.
because i need my programs to be dynamic and scriptable?
Rust has scripting support. It’s nightly only but that’s not actually a big deal since running nightly is trivial.
It has some limitations currently, but… so does Python.
it’s just such an odd question. you know nothing about my domain or my requirements, you just assume i can or want to use rust.
Yeah anyway with AI why would you use Python for a new project? I just do everything in Rust now, including simple scripts.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of existing Python code.
Why bother with rust? Just tell it to write assembly
Assuming that’s a genuine question…
AI needs feedback just the same as humans. I would think of AI like a human that’s of average cleverness, but has a huge breadth of knowledge and basically infinite time and patience. They are going to be decent at assembly but they’re still going to make mistakes just like humans.
Using a language like Rust that has a lot of static correctness checks gives a higher quality result for AI, just like it does for humans.
AI doesn’t need feedback – you’re supposed to write “make no mistakes”. Why are you worrying about “static correctness checks” when AI can just write flawless assembly?
i am eagerly awaiting the day when people learn to look things up again
None of those have been successful for various reasons (I think primarily because they all sound like they’d be a total nightmare to set up and maintain).
As soon as
uvprovides an alternative implementation so you can just runuv run --but-fastI think it will become popular.I would not be at all surprised if they are secretly working on a faster Python implementation. They own all of the non-shit Python tooling, they have unlimited tokens now, they aren’t afraid of vibe coding. Why not?
As soon as uv provides an alternative implementation so you can just run
uv run --but-fastI think it will become popular.You can already do
uv run -p pypyanduv run -p graalpyto automatically download and use those versions of Python.Ooo interesting, I didn’t know that!
probably because they don’t do any themselves
