• whimsy@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Aah yes, the entire numerical python stack being carried on Fortran and C’s shoulders

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      4 days ago

      The tutorials and walkthrough guides for all of that stuff are infuriating.

      What do you mean I just import and run “unbelievably_specific_tool” and run it? How am I supposed to do anything other than process this example data with that?

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        3 days ago

        Exactly, coming from Java it was such a big difference. Previously I could click on any class or method and view the implementation, with Python, suddenly everything was a convoluted jungle of methods popping into existence during runtime or being loaded from some opaque binary.