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    In bigger projects, you tend to miss type safety really bad, really fast. Rust has it built in, Python can have it bolted on. That’s simply one of the many aspects to consider when choosing your programming language.

    But don’t worry about it too much. If one thing’s for sure, it’s that you will regret that choice in any case.

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      It’s like learning Perl back in the day, then needing to learn use strict;

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          I used to love it, it could look a lot like c, or you could do crap like

          $_=<<'';y;\r\n;;d;$_=pack'b*',$_;$_=eval;$@&&die$@;$_

          Admittedly, they’re trying to obfuscate it, but even unpacking it a bit, it looks alien.