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>I don't see how one million lines of Python saves anyone any time over something low level like C or even Assembly I do somehow agree with you, but going fro
by carlmr 5y ago
>I don't see how one million lines of Python saves anyone any time over something low level like C or even Assembly
I do somehow agree with you, but going from Assembly to C was a huge step, from C to Java/C# a huge step due to GC and better typing.
Python indeed does not feel much higher level to me than e.g. C#, the only reason I've ever really seen why people save lines of code is the lack of braces, which doesn't really matter IMO, and because there are so many libraries. A big reason why there are so many libraries? I guess because people think it's easy, nothing innate in the language, certainly not that it's easy to package stuff.