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[โ€“] sturger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

[Begin Soapbox]

  1. If your idea of demonstrating your programming creds online is bashing Python for being "too slow", you're just revealing that you don't understand your job as a programmer.
  2. A programmer's job is to figure out a good language to use for the application. Notice I didn't say, "the best language"; because there isn't one.
  3. Python too slow for your application? Great. Uncheck that box and investigate any of the innumerable other languages out there.
  4. There's not a good language for your application? Some Really Good programmers create their own language. Other Really Good programmers just use assembly for fuck's sake. If Margaret Hamilton can land people on the Moon in 1969 using 16kB of government hardware, you should be able to code a video game with computers several billion times more powerful. Or just ask ChatGPT to do it for you. I've read good things about it online.
  5. Never underestimate the utility of just requiring everyone to buy faster hardware to cover up crappy programming/business decisions. It's been done since the first caveman programmed a computer by striking two transistors together.
  6. Most programmers have to make due with what they're provided with at work. If you're at work, get back to it and figure out how to solve the problem. That means stop your posing online about "there's no programming language good enough for my application". If explaining to your boss that you need a different approach didn't work, work on your resume instead.

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[โ€“] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

There is only one mention of Python being slow, and that's in the form of a joke where Python is crossed out and replaced with "the wrong tool for the job." Elsewhere in the post, Python is mentioned more positively; it just isn't what's needed for the kind of gamedev the author wants to do.

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