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As someone once said, "Python isn't the best language for anything, but it's the second-best language for almost everything". If we don't get hung up on the ex
by jamestimmins 4y ago
As someone once said, "Python isn't the best language for anything, but it's the second-best language for almost everything".
If we don't get hung up on the exact literalness of that statement, there's a lot of truth to it. Being essentially a "lingua franca" that's easy to pick up has accelerated it in various seemingly unrelated fields. This, I assume, it to the seeming detriment of use-case specific languages like Julia.