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tyler@programming.dev on 05 Mar 2025 17:52 next collapse

python is a bad first language because the tooling is terrible. “ah yes let’s teach beginners by making them deal with tooling problems for the first 90 hours of their lessons, then we can finally get to actually teaching the language”

30p87@feddit.org on 05 Mar 2025 18:02 next collapse

I have hundreds of packages installed via pacman/the AUR without problem lül

I love Arch

UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev on 05 Mar 2025 22:48 collapse

As someone who worked as a TA at uni for the introductory course to programming for engineers, which used python, that never once a problem lol.

Mac users were recommended to install anaconda rather than python directly, and that was just about it.

ericjmorey@programming.dev on 05 Mar 2025 18:52 collapse

It’s not