>I use Python and it's OK, but I find a lot of the breathless hype around it as a language a little baffling as there are more than an average number of stupidi

>I use Python and it's OK, but I find a lot of the breathless hype around it as a language a little baffling as there are more than an average number of stupidities in there. There's fewer stupidities than languages like javascript or perl and it ends up being more practical than languages like haskell or ocaml. One of it's unappreciated facets is that it's good at language interop. Instead of trying to be all things to all people (e.g. like go) it just makes it easy to interop with C where you need speed and focuses on being a good high level language. I think the surprise surrounding its popularity is indicative of the fact that few people really understand what makes a great language.