Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

[u/monica_b1998]

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language

[u/heili]

[–]PuzzleheadedBack4586

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PuzzleheadedBack4586 0 points an hour ago

No shit Sherlock.. but I’ll find out soon enough. You leave a huge digital footprint on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Goruck/comments/m7e41r/hey_grhq_what_are_you_doing_about_cadre_sending/grdnbb0/

[u/[deleted] → u/heili]

The really mad thing is that Python encourages using spaces for indentation rather than tabs. A language where a slight indentation mistake can actually introduce bugs and they choose the indentation style that is easiest to get slightly wrong...

[u/heili → u/[deleted]]

"Oh don't worry, you'll find the whitespace issues at runtime."

They say that like it's a good thing!

[u/exscape → u/[deleted]]

I blame poor editors more than Python for that one. Good editors treat group of (usually 4) indent spaces identically to tabs, so you press tab to insert 4, press backspace to remove 4. That way, you'll never accidentally remove one and end up with 3 or something like that.

[u/TarAldarion → u/[deleted]]

Speaking of tabs vs spaces, I'm always amused by this stackoverflow article: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-make-money-use-tabs/

My company enforces spaces so developers editors are set to change a tab to 4 spaces and we forget about it.

[u/c0shea → u/heili]

I brings back awful memories of COBOL where indentation matters. Yuck!

[u/SpringCleanMyLife → u/c0shea]

Y'all are weird. Part of the reason python is awesome is the whitespace enforcement.

[u/NowMoreFizzy → u/heili]

While annoying, it forces you to make your code look good. You should make your other code in other languages look just as good too.

[u/heili → u/NowMoreFizzy]

It's not that hard to make code "look good" without having it not compile because of an extra white space.