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Python has a reputation for being a good "beginner" or "scripting" language. Describing it as such is really a disservice. One of things that makes Python a ki
by ralmidani 9y ago
Python has a reputation for being a good "beginner" or "scripting" language. Describing it as such is really a disservice.
One of things that makes Python a killer language (apart from its readable syntax and straightforward programming model) is how it enables you to jump in at any skill level and be immediately productive, without hampering your ability to get things done quickly and elegantly as your skills grow.
There are faster, trendier languages out there, but I suspect Python will still be thriving when many of them have become footnotes.
- runevault 9y agoThe interesting thing, to me, with Python is it can fall out of favor but it seems very good at coming back. Look when Ruby got big and became the most popular scripting language. yet Python kept trucking on, until the data science explosion that made it having things like Numpy and Scipy matter so much (and then from there libs like Tensorflow).
- blhack 9y agoThis has been such a frustration of mine when mentoring people through learning to code. Python is a great beginner language, but it isn't a language that is only for beginners.