On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:48 PM, James Bennett <ubernost...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:19 AM, didier rano <didier.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you think about this post > > ? http://blog.skeedy.com/django-rails-but-a-cost-to-pay > > I think... > > * A community, but it is not so easy to find developers compared to Java or > .NET > > True, but finding *good* developers in any language, which is the real > goal no matter what you're working with, is so difficult people write > whole books on it and *still* fail. > > * With dynamic languages, we cannot use powerful IDE as Visual Studio. > It is not a problem for me, but some developers like completion, > compilation… > > Eclipse/PyDev will do this. Komodo will do this. Aptana will do this. > Visual Studio will do it with IronPython. Shall we continue the list > of IDEs which work with dynamic languages and offer all the crutches > people are used to? > > * Quality check tools are less powerful because dynamic languages > > Just in the Python world, PyLint, Cheesecake, coverage.py and quite a > few other quality-checking libraries would like to have a word with > you, along with approximately eight zillion testing frameworks, > harnesses and mock-object libraries. > > * Difficult to use Java or .NET libraries. Example: A lot of analytics > semantic libraries exist in Java, but not in Python. > > So use Jython, which lets you blend together Python code and Java > libraries any way you like, and even lets you deploy your Python > applications as Java WAR files. Or IronPython which does pretty much > the same with .NET. > > * Small and smart community then some developers could be arrogant, be > “the chosen one”. > > Says the guy who's been factually wrong on every technical statement > he's made about Python so far in this post? > > * “Religions” wars are useless… > > And of course, no Java developers or .NET developers ever have silly > or pointless arguments. Only people who use dynamic languages do > that... or something? > > * A lot of freelance developers, but startups needs to have internal > developers too. > > Doesn't this contradict the first point? "It's so hard to find > developers" versus "wow, there are so many developers I can contract > with". > > In other words, this is poorly researched, factually wrong on most of > its points, arguably self-contradictory... and you expected people not > to argue with you about it? > > 2/10. Do better next time. > 1.5/10 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
