How to start with coding?
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@nucular (View Post)
I have nothing against python, it has its own downsides and upsides. What I am saying is that python can in no way be called "ligtweight" -
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Listen to therocketeer, you can actually say that python is lightweight:
Python is lightweight.
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I don't think people are getting what "lightweight" means. We were going to put a python console into tpt, but didn't because it wasn't lightweight at all. It was actually extremely huge, the size of tpt would increase by I don't know how much, but a lot. Python has all these libraries and other functions that make it really large. So even though it may be simple to use, that's just because it has so many functions that can do things for you.
Lua is lightweight though, it has a very small library, isn't large in size (it's embedded into tpt), and pretty simple. But I wouldn't recommend it as a first language, I recommend that you learn python too. It's really easy and fun to use :)Edited once by jacob1. Last: 24th Feb 2014 -
Does it matter if something is considered by some dude on the internet wether it is lightweight or not? It's how that thing is utilised which will determine wether or not it is lightweight or heavy. Since Python can be used for both lightweight (http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/simplest-rpg-game-in-python/ ) and heavy ( http://chandlerproject.org/ ) projects, it is my reason to believe that all your arguments are biased and subjective.
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@Schicko (View Post)
You're misunderstanding the term lightweight.
Python is not lightweight because to run python you have to have megabytes and megabytes of python's stdlib.
Those 2 projects you posted are "simple" and "complex", "small" and "huge", but neither are lightweight, because they are based on a non-lightweight language Python.
