In most specialized domains, doing things well involves a surprising number of subtleties, often so many that even some professionals can't keep track of all of them.https://twitter.com/martgnz/status/1074805343312584706 …
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The role of a good library is then to provide affordances that match expert mental models, with good defaults that alleviate the cognitive load of your craft. Then you can explore the design space quickly, expressing what you want in a way that feels natural.
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In reverse, the worst libraries are those with an API that make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you're not paying close attention -- those that add library-specific cognitive load to your workflow instead of alleviating domain-specific cognitive load.
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This is a wonderfully brief quote which captures what I feel about the best Python libraries — thank you!
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