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Sure, that makes sense in a specific way - perhaps if you were deciding which language to use for a particular project. You'd look at which libraries it offers,

Sure, that makes sense in a specific way - perhaps if you were deciding which language to use for a particular project. You'd look at which libraries it offers, which features you will be making the most use of etc. But in this case, it's comparing two languages generally to each other. And the example chosen biases Python in terms of brevity and complexity because Python has a library for the use case chosen for the comparison. If you want to do a general comparison you need to be general in your approach.

chucksmash 7y ago
> the example chosen biases Python in terms of brevity and complexity because Python has a library for the use case Which would also be true for many other examples they might have picked, which makes it a reflection of the ecosystem, not a distortion. It's a "subjective, primarily developer-ergonomics based" comparison. Seems like fair game to me.