March 05, 2020 Re: I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride | ||||
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Posted in reply to Mark | On Sunday, 1 March 2020 at 15:07:38 UTC, Mark wrote:
> https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial's-journey-to-and-reflections-on-python-3/
> In cases like Python refusing to accept bytes for things like HTTP header names (which will just be spit out over the wire as bytes), Python's pendulum has swung too far towards Unicode only.
> For example, POSIX (Linux) tends to use char * for everything and doesn't care about encoding and Windows tends to use 16 bit character types where the encoding is... a can of worms.
Et tu, Windows? Honestly, that's just OCD. To think a person with OCD can write in a dynamic language.
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March 05, 2020 Re: I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kagamin | > The reality here is that it is impossible to abstract over differences between operating system behavior without compromises that can result in data loss, outright wrong behavior, or loss of functionality.
The result was predictable.
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