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jason_osteryesterday at 11:02 PM1 replyview on HN

Compare to what happened to Python. That will cheer you up!


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jaggederesttoday at 12:37 AM

Hey, at least python is now extremely consistent: it's an unpleasant tarpit regardless of whether it's human or AI generated. Ruby, too, rip my native programming language.

I remember in the pre-AI era I was doing a quick sample contract employment with a company that had >200 columns in their user table and was manually enumerating them in every query, multiple times. They were using SELECT $1,$2,...$184,$185 from tablename with an enormous list of columns referenced only by offset. That's not python's fault, but I've weirdly seen it more often in python codebases.

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