George Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1

Hi everyone, so I'm the guy who wrote this article. I'm sharing a video recording of George Hotz writing some Python code. Note his reaction at 5:55 [this video] His outburst is an emotional manifestation of the different sources of frustration I've had working with Python that I've tried to document. A common theme I've seen in responses is that many claim that I've mistaken Python as a weakly-typed language countering that it is indeed a strongly-typed language -- obviously an argument of semantics. I'll define a "strongly-typed" language as one where it is trivial to identify the type signature and definition of any function or variable in a program. In Python, this is non-trivial. FYI, this article is also cross-posted on: [link] [link] [link]

Sorry to be holy-wary, but that was outrageous: just watched random pieces of that video until found one where he actually codes, basically vim Python editing. So I opened somewhere around this moment: [this video] And, first, he copy-pastes some code, and then spends about a minute figuring if he got tabs converted to spaces, including googling a vim command. Then he proceeds to make a loop over some collection next to the loop over an adjacent collection. And he makes that stupid mistake of renaming a variable of the loop, but no renaming in the body. Man, if that's how professional vim users work, this piece of video will be the only proof I will ever need to prevent zealots from even wasting IDE users time to try vim.