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Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I'm thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time

I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.

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[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't entirely know why, but it's difficult to enjoy programming in python, even if you enjoy the end product. Something about it's design, which usually forces you to do things imperatively or reach for a library, it's position as mainly a glue language, it's philosophy of "there should only be one way to do it". They're practical philosophies, but not very fun

[โ€“] fossphi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You might have put into a words a suspicion I've had for a long time. I don't know if this is completely the case for me. But yes, Python most of the times doesn't spark joy