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RE: Building my own RSS reader in Python, part 1
What language(s) do you normally code in? I used to be a .Net guy back in the day, and when I started coding my Steemit bots I had a look a Python, but the learning curve seemed a little too steep... so now I'm doing everything in JS :P
Which reminds me... please go check out @PlayDice when you get a gap... my first (well... second, but the 1st isn't live yet) attempt at a Steemit bot/game.
I usually work in Java. Java is still very similar to C# without some of the bells and whistles. I haven't used C# much I'm a bit allergic to .NET.
Python has a relatively low learning curve. If you get by in JS then you shouldn't have a problem with Python. It's got all the cardinal sins like duck typing that Python has too. But I'm still a noob in Python, so I'm still on top of Mount Stupid where I think I know what I'm doing without the experience to motivate my opinion :P
Thanks, I shall check it out!
Wahahahaha... "on top of Mount Stupid"... totally gonna steal that!
Re Python: Well, I got lost just setting up the environment. Fair enough I didn't REALLY try that hard until coming across NodeJS, which was a breeze to get up and running, and so I abandoned Python... I should probably rethink that... ONE day :P
NodeJS is amazing, you can do so much with it.
It's true, Python isn't very easy to set up. It's also got two major branches that had backwards compatibility issues. This seems to be better now, but while I was doing a few Coursera courses it was breaking a lot of stuff.
Things seem to be better now, but if you're getting along in JS then there's no real need for more. I am very keen on Scala, R and Julia at this point in time. Getting tired of writing apps as such and would love to get more into data science.