The Prime is just an Expensive Toy

[Claudio L.]

(12-14-2019 02:33 PM)compsystems Wrote:  The current generation is a generation of downloaders, but not only for downloading and executing, but as I said before to incorporate ready-made libraries in your projects, so that you can create your own constructions based on these "bricks"

Imagine a swimming pool full of Lego bricks. Generations before you made the bricks and they are all there for you to use them.
You job as part of the "downloader" generation is to select the right bricks and, as you said, build something else.
My problem is not with that. I understand this is a phenomenon of our times and I agree that you can build on top of other things. What I cannot accept is that if 90% of your job consists merely of connecting the right bricks, it's YOU who is responsible for selecting the bricks. You can't take a brick, and because it doesn't produce the outcome you wanted to build, you label it as bad, and go out demanding that the brick be modified.
It's a big swimming pool, just don't use that brick and move on, or if you can, modify the brick and throw a bunch back into the pool for other people to use (yes, that tired argument again... how do you think the pool got filled with bricks in the first place?). That's the correct approach.
I have nothing against downloaders in general, only the ones that complain in a way that I feel is unfair to the people making the bricks.

As for Python... to me it's just one of many languages. It's advantages are more marketing than anything else. 5 years from now somebody will come up with a language that has a cuter mascot and everybody will start: "why doesn't your device support xxxxxx?"