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Making Linked Lists on C-likes makes me appreciate Lisp even more (hexbear.net)
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I get dizzy looking at C-like languages, they just feel incredibly hard to follow compared to an S-expression.

Everything this just so verbose and there's so much negative space between the lines. To be fair, this course is making us program using Java so maybe it has to do more with that.

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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Going to just mention that I have not used Java, but I do dislike Python for its (lack of a) typing system.

Python does have a typing system, it's very strictly typed, that's just hidden from you by default at runtime unless you explicitly inspect the type. Otherwise it's all duck typed which can be useful when you're dealing with data pipelines and don't really care about strict typing.

There's also the type hinting system, which can be irritating since it's essentially thrown away at runtime (technically, you can still access type annotations if you inspect signatures).

I treat that as more of a static check on my code, you can really quickly change something then follow the linter down the chain resolving all the type conflicts.

Hell I make the TypedDict an integral part of my code since it's just a regular python dictionary at runtime, but tells you the expected keys and types while in an IDE