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Too true. I ran into this after about 10 minutes of trying the language. Copy pasting from a GitHub issue? Better hope those invisible newlines are what you expect.
IMO it does deserve a place in that list today and is definitely worth a gander.
1. Someone writes a library
2. Library becomes insanely popular
3. Users receive value out of library
4. One day, users stop receiving value from library
Is the author not responsible for the value generated by this library? At what point does the author become required to continue providing value?
"Just fork it" is an excellent response to (4), anything else is what entitlement looks like.
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As someone developing GUIs with Qt bindings for Python daily, and has been for the past 8-9 years, I respectfully disagree.
Understanding of the underlying types and memory management is rarely an issue (e.g. once every 3 months), and when it is it's incredibly straightforward (e.g. maintaining reference to a window you've just created else Python garbage collects it for you).
Topics like these appear every now and then and remind me how there are still developers out there that still struggle to find the right combination of language and framework, some resorting to Electron because of assertions like this. This is a solved problem for my line of work - VFX and workflow related tools.
I was looking for it the last time around as well, but just couldn't find it. Has anyone got a link to it?