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I'm with you. The problem comes when you get a job with a bunch of kook-aid drinkers who use it for everything.
by hacknat 9y ago
I'm with you. The problem comes when you get a job with a bunch of kook-aid drinkers who use it for everything.
- baldfat 9y agoPython the MS Word of Programming Languages. People over use it like a Swiss Knife. Expand a little and use it when it is the proper tool for the proper job.
- acomjean 9y agoThis. Python is great for what it does. I use it a fair amount. Its fast enough for me. I admire the hutzpah to use it everywhere, but...But when people try to number crunch, and add c extensions and hey arduino could use an interpreted language! why don't we have it optimize itself (pypy) and so on. When I learned it I thought I would reach programming bliss, as its reputation is so strong. But after I learned it I thought "its nice, but am I missing something?"
- cpburns2009 9y agoI think a statically typed language similar to Python might be the holy grail of languages. Maybe Nim, Scala, or even Kotlin could fulfill that role (I have no experience in any of these). Although, I am skeptical if JVM based languages could work well for that given their long start up times.
- dom96 9y agoI'd say Nim fits that description best. It's a great compiled, efficient, statically typed Python alternative.