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Ask HN: Coming back to Python after a 5 year hiatus–-what do I need to know?

The last serious Python I wrote was 2.7 (I narrowly avoided the python3 migration fun) about 5 or 6 years ago. I’m picking it back up, but I’m having trouble sifting through the current state of the art.

- Which typing library do folks use?

- Is Django still the best?

- What do you use for servers? Gunicorn?

- Any improvements with the interpreter to make it more reloadable?

- Is Celery still a thing or do you just use Lambda?

- What’s ideal for deploying Python? Ec2 and some Ansible? App engine? Something else?

- How about writing APIs? GraphQL?

- How about parallelism? Multi processing and futures for concurrency?

- What’s the async story? What should I be looking at for async web frameworks?

- Numpy still great? Sci py?

Thank you in advance!

34 points alexkehayias 5 years ago 15 comments

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