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Ubershmekel's Uberpython Pythonlog
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Ubershmekel's Uberpython Pythonlog is a personal blog at uberpython.wordpress.com about programming and data. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Why I’m not leaving Python for Go”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal Python blog for posts on Python and on Go's error handling. One commenter calls a 2012 post on the lack of exceptions in Go a good summary of that debate.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Python, music, sports, gaming and philosophy.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I’m not leaving Python for Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-23
- Why I'm not leaving Python for Go (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-27
What Hacker News says?
The Go noise got to me too. I worked through a book on it, implementing a project in it, and ended up writing it off. The problem for me was the insane concept they adopted around C-style error codes and abandoning exceptions. The idea that errors should pass by default rather than halt by default is just putting more on the programmer to manage. Which I'm almost universally against unless there are significant gain…
Comment linking /2012/09/23/why-im-not-leaving-python-for-go/
on “Python 3 can revive Python”Submitted Why I’m not leaving Python for Go as a story · 225 points
HN discussionIt's come a long way in the last three years: https://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddi...
Comment linking /2012/03/17/ah-the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo-analyzed/
on “Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo”Submitted Why I'm not leaving Python for Go (2012) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSounds like the oft-repeated cry of the C-based language dev in regards to a lack of exceptions in Go. The blog and comments here have summed this debate up nicely: http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/why-im-not-leavin...
Comment linking /2012/09/23/why-im-not-leaving-python-for-go/
on “Go 1.2 Release Candidate 1 released”Submitted Statistics on reddit’s top 10,000 titles with NLTK as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 3 Wall of Shame Updates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm not Leaving Python for Go (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Google App Engine Glass Ceiling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Precision, recall, sensitivity and specificity as a story · 1 points
HN discussion