| ▲ | stingraycharles an hour ago |
| > Python is such a weird language. Lazy imports are a bandaid for AI code base monstrosities with 1000 imports Just because you don’t like a feature doesn’t mean it’s because of AI and bad code. |
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| ▲ | sigmoid10 an hour ago | parent [-] |
| I think this is just a natural consequence of an easy-to-use package system. The exact same story as with node. If you don't want lots of imports, don't make it so damn easy to pile them into projects. I'm frankly surprised we still see so few supply chain attacks, even though they picked up their cadence dramatically. |
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| ▲ | saghm 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | This seems a lot more due to an import running arbitrary code because stuff can happen in the top-level of a module rather than only happening in functions. From what I can tell, it seems pretty common for dynamically typed languages and pretty much entirely absent from statically typed ones, which tend to have a main function that everything else happens inside transitively. I guess this makes it easy if what you're writing is something that runs with no dependencies, but it's a pretty terrible experience as soon as you try to introduce the concept of a library. | | |
| ▲ | kokada 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > it seems pretty common for dynamically typed languages and pretty much entirely absent from statically typed ones Counter-example is Go and init() function. |
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| ▲ | stevesimmons 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | What would your alternative look like? |
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