None of these things are specifically related to teaching programming. This is just the author's personal list of things they hate about Python, and they're usi

None of these things are specifically related to teaching programming. This is just the author's personal list of things they hate about Python, and they're using "what language should we teach newbies?" as an attempt to make it seem like more. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion about Python, but for this to really be a valuable insight into teaching Python, there needs to be some introspection into why dynamic typing is bad as a foundational language, etc, and also needs to analyze the other side of the coin: the many things that do make Python attractive as a first language. Without it, this is just a rant #34929865 about Python's lack of typing and curly braces.