If someone can look at this problem and not understand it from even just the first screenshot, they have no business being near a compiler. What an embarrassment.

[https://imgur.com/xlXr4tJ.png\](https://imgur.com/xlXr4tJ.png) Nice.

[https://imgur.com/RW1IzaF.png\](https://imgur.com/RW1IzaF.png) Cool, good fix.

[https://imgur.com/kjPDoxb.png\](https://imgur.com/kjPDoxb.png) It gets old.

> You must hate watching the news. So much that I don't do it, yes. I'm the sort of guy that uses adblock to block "trending" panels on websites.

I have personally received at least one unwanted message spamming one of these things that I can remember for sure, and I have the vague feeling that it's the most recent in a consistent dribble of spam. The OP mentioned that he sees new ones of these in the news every single day. I can't corroborate that as I don't look at this website (just the newsletters), but that certainly sounds like spam to me. It doesn't have to be numerous or frequent to be spam, just irrelevant and unwanted. If my birth was a message on the internet it would be spam for example, even though it only happened once.

Does that actually work? If you search my name you get a bunch of different dudes who are all much more attractive and apparently successful than me. If you want to find me and what I do (and have done) you have to search my username.

You misunderstand. > irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. Definition courtesy Bing. Spammers are by definition those who create spam, which is irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet. It doesn't have to be for monetary gain, even though that's the usual purpose of spam. A ten year old spamming "fart" in IRC is just as much a spammer as a thirty-six year old spamming Pfizer advertisements to your inbox.

Because it's spam.

I feel the same way for sure. I occasionally get emails from CodeProject containing links such as [Introduction to ELENA Programming Language](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1127103/Introduction-to-ELENA-Programming-Language), which is just completely insane to me. It has 186 stars on github after a direct push to people's email inboxes. It's quite clearly unasked for, unneeded, and dead on arrival. As a programmer I well understand the itch to strip naked and walk backwards into the sea, writing your own programming language, or compiler, or operating system, or making your own hardware, or whatever, but we're not all Terry A. Davis. Sometimes you should be honest with yourself about your worthless throwaway hobby project being worthless hobby project.

Contact your local TNR group.

A framework is a library that calls your code. You have to structure your code in specific ways so the framework knows how to call it. Generally they take a huge amount of work off your hands in return for being reasonably inflexible. An example of a framework would be the Django web framework. The `./manage.py` script you use to start the web server calls into Django to handle the command line input, and that's the only command in the management script, control never returns to your entrypoint. Instead, the framework does frameworkey stuff to look at the rest of your code, and calls the bits of it that it recognises in specific scenarios, such as calling a view function when the matching URL conf is matched against a request against the webserver. Compare and contrast to Dear ImGui, which never takes control. You set up the environment, then you call into the library, it does what it needs to, and returns. Control remains with you, Dear ImGui never has need to call back into your code unless you give it a specific callback, in which case it only calls that.

Pretty sure you're misunderstanding it - the way I read it, he's saying there appear to be a lot of low uptake languages and frameworks with no reason to have been written in the first place outside of a hobby project for a bored programmer, and no reason to enter his eyeballs outside of show&tell. His question is then whether he's mistaken.

I've worked on a varied bunch of projects using the Django web framework, and the only times I've felt like I'm fighting the framework is when a lesser programmer has written idiotic code because they thought they knew better than the framework in the first place, and I'm the chump stuck maintaining it. There _are_ good frameworks that work for a wide variety of things, but you must drink the kool-aid. You have to do it their way through and through, and only then do you get the benefits of a framework.

> You are going to have to take my word for it, but I am 100% sure that with less disk, less CPU and less memory, I can deliver better performance than could be achieved using a traditional RDBMS. I'm not gonna. If you were such a wizard, someone would have hired you to write the next PostgreSQL and make a mint.

Indeed. You'll wanna make sure you've got phoenix (wxPython version >=4) installed, and definitely for sure use wxFormBuilder instead of writing your interfaces by hand.

I actually quite like wx's native widget implementation - it buys you the learnt familiarity with the conventions of the platform your user uses, for free.

I don't think wxPython is part of the stdlib at all, is it? That's news to me. I also don't particularly agree with you that there "isn't a great way to add a GUI on top of Python". When you use Visual Studio to make a XAML or WinForms interface, the code that gets written by that is still really mealy awful code, but because the tool writes it for you, you don't notice as much. It's the same with wxFormBuilder, it just happens to be third party. I understand you can do similar with Glade and GTK.

wxPython, with the added help of wxFormBuilder, (because writing interface code/data by hand is hell).

I came back to say thank you, and to point out that perhaps this might make you think about it in future, (even if you decide not to act), so the time wasn't wasted. Plus, I enjoy complaining.