Well, I do think Python sucks but those reasons have relatively little to do with it to me. I just don't like it from an engineering point of view. - lack of p

Well, I do think Python sucks but those reasons have relatively little to do with it to me. I just don't like it from an engineering point of view. - lack of proper typing - it pretends to have a type system but hardly enforces it anywhere at least with any of the common practices used by the community. 'quacks like a duck' is a completely asinine excuse for not properly using types and interfaces. - lack of true multithreading (aka, GIL): if you can't use all the cores on your computer you drastically limit the scope of applications that can be implemented. No, I don't want to restructure my application into a distributed multiprocessing system just to access the basic capabilities of the CPU in my computer thanks. - lack of true cross-platform. partly because of the previous point half of Python's ecosystem is written in C and needs to be compiled for (if not on) the target platform. Python tries to pass as a language with Java-like bytecode but the reality is it doesn't even come close to that. We regularly try to install Python tools and find that they can't run because some obscure shared library isn't available on our system, etc. Mostly, I dislike Python because it seems to be such a trap for new programmers who learn programming in it and then think they should never have to learn anything else. Trying to coach people on my team who started with Python to use or learn anything else is extraordinarily difficult. I remember when Java was like that and it was ugly then - it's just as bad if not worse with Python.