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Why not just use a statically type language? I really don't understand why python is so popular outside of a few specialized areas.
by eweise 4y ago
Why not just use a statically type language? I really don't understand why python is so popular outside of a few specialized areas.
- Spivak 4y agoBecause ecosystems are what makes people productive and languages are just a means to access them. Python's ecosystem is absolutely massive and high-quality.
- eweise 4y agoMost popular languages have massive ecosystems. Don't see Python's being a differentiator except for a few specialized areas. In fact, the project I'm on runs on spark wrapped by python libraries, so really its the scala libraries that provide all the heavy lifting.
- cjalmeida 4y agoWe use Spark extensively. We also use @pandas_udf to run some part of our Spark pipeline through some Python-only ML libraries.
- michaelt 4y agoAh, but what if I'm a masochist and I want all the verbosity of a statically typed language with none of the benefits?
- mbrodersen 4y agoTry F#: Strongly typed but 100% inference of types => best of both worlds.
- ok123456 4y agoIt's basically a lisp with better syntax.