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> Python is now sufficiently powerful and complex, that many proposed additions are a net loss for the language due to the additional complexity. […] Python was
by pansa2 10mo ago
> Python is now sufficiently powerful and complex, that many proposed additions are a net loss for the language due to the additional complexity. […] Python was once described as “Python Fits Your Brain”, but that becomes less and less true as more and more features are added.
Looks like this was written in 2020, but IMO Python crossed the “fits in your brain” (or at least my brain!) threshold years earlier. Nowadays, are there any popular languages that could be described that way? Maybe Go? Or Lua?
- vintagedave 10mo agoPascal, maybe. It's straightforward, capable, easy to read. You see people popping up here on HN periodically with these super light-weight, fast apps written in Delphi or Free Pascal (or Oxygene, the one I've been using lately.)