It works and is a pile of jank - Python
It doesn’t work and is a pile of jank - C++
You violated gods laws with how bad your code is and it still runs (right through the wall) - C
a compile-time error is highly preferable to a run-time error
In bigger projects, you tend to miss type safety really bad, really fast. Rust has it built in, Python can have it bolted on. That’s simply one of the many aspects to consider when choosing your programming language.
But don’t worry about it too much. If one thing’s for sure, it’s that you will regret that choice in any case.
It’s like learning Perl back in the day, then needing to learn use strict;
Rust is completely correct to be a dick about it as well. Type safety is there for a reason.
I’d like it better if things were designed to work together better.
Right now, I’m working on a password storage system using the
password_hashcrate. You need to provide the salt yourself; this is already a bit silly for not providing a simple default that just gives you 16 bytes from a CSPRNG, but let’s continue.You read the Salt struct documentation, and it talks about UUIDs being pretty good salts (well, using v4, anyway). So that pushes you toward the
uuidcrate, right? Except no. That crate doesn’t produce formats that the functions on the Salt struct will accept, like base64. So maybe theuuid_b64crate will do it? I don’t think so, because that crate uses a URL-safe version of base64, and it’s not clear Salt will take that, either.You’re now forced to use a cumbersome interface from the
randcrate to make your salt. I’m still working through some of the “size not known at compile time” errors from this approach.All of which would work better if there was a little thought into connecting the pieces together, or just providing a default salt generator that’s going to do the right thing 90% of the time.
Don’t get me started on how Actix hasn’t thought through how automated testing is supposed to work.
Yeah, gotta newtype it up to make it even more relentless.
Hey at least it’s not JavaScript which is perpetually high on crack with Object object
Well, that happens when you don’t override the
toStringmethod. Not worse than Java’s 0xf00cu
You wouldn’t typecast a car.
I may be on the wrong side of history but I can’t see what other role a car could get in the film industry except vehicle.
What about typecasting to a car?
For our American friends: the Opel Corsa is a car.
Calling it a car may be an exaggeration
For the Brits, it’s a Vauxhall Corsa.
For everyone : it’s a sh’tbox (never again)
Does it also under-steer like crazy? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhhWzrR3Wg)
A connoisseur. You have my upvote.
Ok now how do you cast the spell “float” on it
Do we need any more proof Python is superior?
(I’m ^joking, ^I ^love ^Rust)
C when I cast a
char * *to achar * * const: okC when I cast a
char * *to achar * const *: okC when I cast a
char * *to achar const * *: WTFC when I cast a
char * *to achar const * const *: okThe WTF case isn’t allowed because it would allow modification of the const. From https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/implicit_conversion
int main() { const char c = ‘c’; char* pc; char** ppc = &pc; const char** pcc = ppc; // Error: not the same as cv-unqualified char**, no implicit conversion. *pcc = &c; *pc = ‘C’; // If the erroneous assignment above is allowed, the const object “c” may be modified. }
Please stop, I have CPTSD.
And that’s why I don’t use Python for anything more than simple scripts
Look at mister “Sometimes I write programs that have more than a single niche function” over here
This is a post about growing disappointment with Python
You don’t even need to cast in Python, a reference is a reference.
If it’s loud, moving, can chase you and honks at you, then it’s
an obnoxious goosea car
Perl when I iterate over an object and treat the result as a hash reference: “fine, whatever. Fuck you, tho”
Just wait until you come across an XS library that uses a scalar reference for its objects (like LibXML).
Yeah this was a good one to wake up to.
as long as you can shift it
Python doesn’t have casts and is strongly typed.
Did you a word?
No
