2026-09-22 04:29 UTC
@jpaskaruk@growers.social I've dipped my toe into python. I wrote a script to plot a bunch of data points (I ended up learning R to do all the heavy lifting and just used python to generate the visual). My experience was less than stellar. I know there's no accounting for taste and all, but it just really didn't feel all that friendly to me. I kept thinking that I should be learning something else instead. Like maybe Rust.
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@jpaskaruk@growers.social 2026-09-22 04:33
@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net I used it on a job, had learned it via an online course for a lark, and then found myself running ragged chasing crashed blade servers, but aware that I had two Python APIs and a way to kick them via SSH, and after a bit of very basic scripting, suddenly I had hours and hours of free time, in which I built out some web UI tooling to allow others to manage those blades with ease. For the right jobs, it's just extremely useful. I feel like I should mention Perl again here for some reason. 😜