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Not a language designer, but I have been told the big thing holding back Python is that it exposed too much of its internal guts to external APIs. With so much
by fbdab103 4y ago
Not a language designer, but I have been told the big thing holding back Python is that it exposed too much of its internal guts to external APIs. With so much of the internals exposed, it becomes difficult to make some required backend changes.
- haberman 4y agoDefinitely that is true, I wrote a comment about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18041047 Another issue with Python is that the language semantics are much more subtle. This is an excellent talk that shows how even operations that appear simple in Python can be much more complex than they appear: https://youtu.be/qCGofLIzX6g https://youtu.be/qCGofLIzX6g