I agree with a number of the author's points. For me personally, the biggest single issue is the scope by indentation. I know some folks like this, and think

I agree with a number of the author's points. For me personally, the biggest single issue is the scope by indentation. I know some folks like this, and think it is good to restrict single functions/methods to less than a page in an editor ... but I personally do not like a language imposing such opinions on me. It makes, IMO, reasoning about the code your reading, even if it fits in a single editor page, very ... very hard. As someone who works with multiple languages across multiple environments, the author's comments on the installation ecosystem are on point. Though, these critiques are better directed at the packagers of the distribution. I'd given up on getting current, correctly built versions of Perl, Python, R, Octave, etc. from packagers/distros, and simply build my own in a separate tree[1]. Most folks now do this in user home directories, but I still personally like the system level availability. FWIW, I've found that Julia[2] is a far better Python than Python. You have all the advantages of a JIT compiled language which does parallelism/concurrency well, has an awesome FFI to simply use external libraries, etc. [1] https://github.com/joelandman/nlytiq-base https://github.com/joelandman/nlytiq-base [2] https://julialang.org/ https://julialang.org/