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i feel like python is just the next c++. everyone rides the hype train and thinks it’s gravy until 10 years later everyone realizes it’s full of mistakes and yi
by nikofeyn 7y ago
i feel like python is just the next c++. everyone rides the hype train and thinks it’s gravy until 10 years later everyone realizes it’s full of mistakes and yields unwieldy codebases readily. i have never developed python code and said “this is fun” like i do with scheme and ml dialects.
- smt88 7y agoPython is 28-ish years old. We've had plenty of time to realize its mistakes. The current source of Python growth is its excellent ecosystem, which wouldn't exist if the mistakes were that terrible. We are clearly not in some kind of a Python hype bubble that will burst -- not that C++ ever was either, honestly. (This is coming from someone who loathes Python, btw.)
- bsder 7y ago> everyone rides the hype train and thinks it’s gravy until 10 years later everyone realizes it’s full of mistakes and yields unwieldy codebases readily. Python isn't just "well, it's the only thing there" like C++ was. Python already had a well-established and well-liked competitor that it had to displace--Perl. It is extremely hard to communicate the juggernaut that was Perl/CPAN back about 1996. So, Python has already demonstrated that it has better survival traits than most of its predecessors (Tcl, Perl, etc.). The current popularity of so many of the languages developed in the 1990's shows that they really did do something significantly better than the languages that came before them. "It's the developers, stupid"