> Python is never the best language at anything. But it's a damn good language at most things. It's an invaluable powerful versatile toolbox because it gives y

> Python is never the best language at anything. But it's a damn good language at most things. It's an invaluable powerful versatile toolbox because it gives you the margin to adopt the style that fits your problem instead of forcing one on you. This is meaningless bullshit. I could say the same thing about Java - tons of battle-tested high-level libraries, and a variety of frontends that all compile onto the same runtime. Just like Python, you can write imperative or functionally, and have your choice of working in a hand-holding high-level framework or down close to the API. It's a programming language, if it's not a powerful+versatile toolbox it's doing something wrong. Now, if we look at the cases where a programming language is obviously not fit-for-purpose, the common thread is the inability to scale to larger codebases without the programmer effort becoming exponential. And that's where Python fails, because it's missing a critical piece of the toolbox - type checking. It makes maintaining code vastly more difficult, because you don't have any compile-time checking about how your code is being used. That makes it brittle and difficult to refactor. > It also has the benefit of not getting out of fashion precisely because of that. PHP also never goes out of style. Should we all be taking cues for language design from PHP? I don't think Python is that bad. I write Python code when it's appropriate. But it's not the language I'd choose to write a large, long-lasting codebase in, either.