Super Late Roc Py

So I'm really late on this one but I decided to do it anyway. Last month I went to something called Roc PY, the Rochester area Python meetup. I'm not really one to go to Hackerspaces, they're nice for socializing but I never seem to get much out of them. Roc PY wasn't really much different for me but that was for a lot of reasons.

First off, I'm not a Python guy. It's never been my language. I appreciate it and I think it's great for small scripts, web development and as a scripting language paired with something like Blender, but it's never my go-to language for projects. It's very easy to write but it lacks decent performance and frankly I don't like the syntax.

About the meetup though. It was tucked away in a dark scary corner of one of the back rooms at the University of Rochester. Okay it wasn't dark or scary but it was tucked away where if I wasn't in a group, I would have probably gotten lost. Besides the abundance of HFOSS students there weren't really too many other people there. A few U of R students showed up but other than that it was just a few older guys who use Python a bunch.

Really throughout the meeting nothing really stood out to me except for one guy who wanted to do a lot of geometry tessellation with Python. Not CPython or something like Blender scripting, just Python. While I did mention that Blender would probably be the fastest pure Python solution he said he had already brought Blender to its knees. I feel like this was a problem of "Use the right tool for the right job." Python's forte is not speed, it's ease of use. If you need to do complex things really fast, especially something like tessellation, you use something like C or, ideally, you use GPU accelerated compute shaders. That kind of irked me more than it should have.

I honestly don't think I'd go again by myself. I don't think I could find my way back to that room on my own to be honest, and Python just really isn't my cup of tea. Heck even if I was into Python I feel like hanging out on /r/Python or /r/LearnProgramming or some other Python related board on your website of choice would be a better way to interact with the Python community.