While I share plenty of the annoyances this author has with Python, and I’m sympathetic to the argument, they never quite manage to spell out why Python’s choic

While I share plenty of the annoyances this author has with Python, and I’m sympathetic to the argument, they never quite manage to spell out why Python’s choices are somehow worse than any other language other than that Python does things differently. Why is having constant variables so important when learning? Why are curly braces important? The author never says. Meanwhile, while I agree Python’s strings are overcomplex and often frustrating, the weird digression about how “most languages” have char and char[] and String is a fancy wrapper, is actually just incorrect at this point and reveals just how narrow the author’s experience actually is. In the meantime, my kid learned to program using Python and then went on to do very well picking up Java In subsequent classes. In my opinion, she’s far better off for being exposed to two very different languages early on rather than coming up thinking everything needs to look like C to be a “real” language.