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I just don't think python is a "fashionable" language. I think it's a nice utility or "glue" language. It can do almost anything (machine learning, web dev, etc

I just don't think python is a "fashionable" language. I think it's a nice utility or "glue" language. It can do almost anything (machine learning, web dev, etc) in a way perl can't, and so I don't see it disappearing like perl. As for the section on python being antisocial, It makes sense to me. Dependency management is a tough thing for python and javascript. However I would not switch to writing Rust or Go for tooling scripts either. Though Python has been used for devops scripts in at my job for a long time, and has been very very stable, so I'm not sure why it's causing so much pain for the author.

PaulHoule 4y ago
I rejected Python definitively in 1999 but got dragged back into Python programming a little less than 10 years ago because there was so much work. It's easy to get into a place with Python is a nightmare. I worked at a place full of data scientists who couldn't get anything to work reliably because they installed things with pip --local which contaminates all the python installations on your machine including Conda distributions. We also found many Pythons were misconfigured, for instance the defaults for https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONIOENCODING https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONIO... depend on your Python and if they are set wrong and a bit of text gets ingested by the system and spit out by a 'print' your Python will crash. Since there are plenty of 'print'(s) that come in with packages you install with pip the answer 'don't print dirty text' isn't an answer. On top of that there is the fact that pip's resolving algorithm is incorrect. It can solve simple cases but if you add enough packages it will break down.