PolarKraken

Frankly you sound like you have a great chance of moving past this, and it's not weird to need some help or feedback from others, most of us do. It's a shame the folks you found previously were such idiots, lots of people are really unqualified to give advice there. Keep pushing!

I don't mean to embarrass you, but you were also supposed to say "AI!"

This should be the standard :)

Maybe they're hoping there's an untapped market for that, which would involve strong margins and therefore help fund work on more run-of-the-mill hardware...?

Lots of assumptions I just made 😅

Someone was posting a week or two ago having done something kinda like that. Something to do with magic circles or similar, looked rad.

Yeah I've been hearing about it and meaning to dive in. Been learning some infra stuff lately though.

Any particularly strong selling points you want to convey?

Oof, my first time coming across JSON5, thanks. Damn near every one of these improvements are things that annoy me from time to time lol, would love to see it adopted.

Yeah, not trying to dunk on other commenter, but these don't sound like complaints I experience with Python at all. Setting up the environment is a breeze with venv, package installation couldn't be easier with basic pip, and I really like having a diverse ecosystem of multiple (often high quality) approaches to solving similar problems.

Really feeling like unions are overdue. People really undervalue and underestimate what it takes to be good or even just competent at this stuff.

I would love that! I do think there are probably interesting underlying personality factors / preferences for a lot of this stuff as well.

I do think that many of Python's characteristics map to my own personality and I bet there's something to that. Things like syntax of course, but not strictly syntax, also things like "The Zen of Python", and the way its a "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none". I also really kind of need the freedom and accompanying responsibility to break any "rules" on a whim (Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance), but I almost never do anything that uses it...

I could probably keep going lol. Feels like a "people looking like their pets" scenario, lmao

Everyone's welcome to their opinion of course, but I find Python more readable than anything else and I resent the visual clutter required to make intentions plain in other languages. Feels like having a conversation where people say the words "comma", "period", etc.

I also spend more time with Python than anything else and I suspect these two facts about me relate, lol

Sounds much like PowerBI, which I can't say I've used much directly. But every time we use it, because the client likes the idea and it can theoretically do "all the business intelligence" natively...we eventually find it can only do 80% of what they actually want, which completely removes its single advantage and forces us to go custom anyway. We've stopped offering it, to be clear.