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> there‘s often a point where it starts being bothersome My team and I have been using Python for web, scripting, and ETL development since 2007. I don't reca
by rsyring 5y ago
> there‘s often a point where it starts being bothersome
My team and I have been using Python for web, scripting, and ETL development since 2007. I don't recall the last time Python wasn't "fast enough" for anything I needed to do. I'm sure it's legitimately too slow for plenty of use cases and classes of programming domains. But for a general purpose language that makes our developers incredibly productive (which is what we optimize for organizationally), I've not "often" found the point where it becomes bothersome. On the contrary, I'd say I've rarely found it. And in those cases, the workaround to make it fast enough is there.
That's not to dispute your experience. I just want to provide a counter example.
- akho 5y agoDoes Python give you an actual productivity edge? I do not see how. Python developers are easier to hire (certainly than Nim), have a monolanguage experience (meaning less onboarding), but are not magically more productive. Developer availability is still a great reason to choose Python.
- m_mueller 5y agoYMMV. My background is in financial applications and there it’s a quite common problem popping up, especially (but not exclusively) in analytics.