Hacker News Reader

Sure, there are different ways to do various things, especially depending on what one is familiar with and what the task at hand is. It sounds more like you knew how to get something done with your tools faster than the other guy/gal in this case. :)

View on HN

There are obviously many factors such as domain knowledge and language familiarity. I respect the developer who failed to do this in Powershell, he's very capable.

In this case, I would chalk it up to Python having a longer history and being more mature. Neither of us were particularly familiar with this domain, but because of the quality of Python's online community and documentation, it wasn't difficult to accomplish the goal.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com