Posit announced this week that the Shiny #Python 🐍 version is moving out from alpha stage to general availability. The Shiny package is one of the great tools in R for building interactive and complex dashboards without #JS or #HTML knowledge. It has a HUGE ecosystem, mainly due to community contribution, and it is great to see it expanding to the Python community.
This is hilarious. A #Google engineer invented #zx to make command line scripting easier with #NodeJS, because at a certain point #shell scripts get too complicated and you need a Real #Programming Language.
This is exactly #Perl’s use case from thirty-six years ago. But the kids want #JavaScript everywhere and would rather it take more work to convert their ascended #Bash scripts to a vastly different syntax.
https://fuckgov.org/@h Oh, I don’t deny it’s useful. And you’ll never catch me saying it’s bad to stick with what you know if it gets the job done—that’s one reason I continue to use #Perl.
My main point was that it’s less work converting #Bash to Perl than to #JavaScript.
The “kids want JavaScript everywhere” was admittedly a little snark directed at the “continuous amnesia” of prior art (not unique to #JS developers but their sheer number means it’s really prevalent) as described here: https://www.ufried.com/blog/continuous_amnesia_issue/
@alcinnz
I'm constantly raising an eyebrow at websites that don't even display basic text and images with JS turned off, or whose layout code is so JS-dependent the page turns into a hot mess without JS running. It's like a road you can't cycle or take public transport on, because the people who designed and built it expect you to be in a private motor vehicle. In both cases, it's hell for accessibility.