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> it only survives because of AI I don't disagree that it's "complex, informally specified" (idk about bug ridden or silencing critics), but it's just silly to
by williamdclt 1y ago
> it only survives because of AI
I don't disagree that it's "complex, informally specified" (idk about bug ridden or silencing critics), but it's just silly to say it only survives because of AI. It was a top-used language before AI got big for web development, data science and all sorts of scientific analysis, and these haven't gone away: I don't expect Python lost much ground in these fields, if any.
- bgwalter 1y agoDropbox moved parts from Python to Golang already in 2014. Google fired the Python team last year and I hear that it does not use Python for new code. Instagram is kept afloat by gigantic hacks. The scientific ecosystem was always there, but relied on heavy marketing to academics, who (sadly) in turn indoctrinate new students to use Python as a first language. I did forget about sysadmin use cases in Linux distributions, but they could be easily replaced by even Perl, as leaner BSD distributions already do.
- guappa 1y agoYou'd be right if go wasn't an awful language designed by someone who clearly failed their compiler class at university.
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