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I'm a long time Lisper and Hy makes Python just tolerable enough to use as a data scientist. It can't or doesn't want to solve Python's worst problems, but its
by vincent-toups 7y ago
I'm a long time Lisper and Hy makes Python just tolerable enough to use as a data scientist. It can't or doesn't want to solve Python's worst problems, but its a big improvement.
- ausbah 7y agoWhat are Pythons biggest issues from your perspective?
- vincent-toups 7y agoScope and type weirdness and just general lackadaisical design philosophy. Hostility towards functional programming. Its also still really really slow, particularly in this era of JIT languages like Lua. Also, I generally find the libraries to be amateurishly designed. Big one that comes to mind is Pandas.