themistokl1k

As someone that enjoys learning by building from scratch sure. There's another huge group of us that like diving in and figuring things out as we go.

I too was intro'd with C and ended up coding 2x as much in python cause I just wanted to do stuff without the overhead of low level. I did appreciate my C knowledge when I wanted to do optimizations and better understand my Python code but I definitely think that I could've learned these things in the reverse order.

I got intro'd with C. Enjoyed learning the low level concepts but I aint managing my own memory anytime soon unless I need that heap blazing fast.

Python was my vehicle to prototyping and implementing educative programs, I can hardly recommend anything else for a beginner. And arguments like other langs call this X are poor IMO.

The world of programming languages isn't 1 dimensional and no one should honor this notion of implied consistency that pleases your (and a student's) limited understanding of this ecosystem. I'd rather have students question and not critique such choices, and form their own educated opinions on what language fits them for what task.

RESPEK

i mean that was wildly expected, right?

I FEEL BAD FOR YOU TIME LIB MAINTAINERS

anybody can elaborate on why amazonians can't pull a Google and make them drop the contract?

now i read and replied to this chain instead of clicking! dang

basically seemingly ethical, open, liberal and highly skilled engineers working for banks and orgs like palantir masking it all under "it's interestsing problems to work on".

disclaimer: i'm super susceptible to this as well..

Dude I was in that guys first FOSDEM presentation. You go guy