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What?! It's one of the slowest languages on the planet, it's not type safe, it has not real concurrency. I can't believe people say this with a straight face

• vaylian 7mo ago
  > It's one of the slowest languages on the planet It's fast enough for many use cases. That doesn't mean that there is no room for optimization, but this is far less a deciding factor these days. > it's not type safe You can do static analysis with Mypy and other tools. > it has not real concurrency. There's different mechanisms for running things concurrently in Python. And there's an active effort to remove the GIL. I also have to ask: What is "real" concurrency? Admittedly, the things you mention are not Python's strongest points. But they are far from being dealbreakers.
  • mountainriver 7mo ago
    >It's fast enough for many use cases. That doesn't mean that there is no room for optimization, but this is far less a deciding factor these days. Everyone says this but its not really true. Every team I've seen do this immediately regrets it when they scale (like at all). >You can do static analysis with Mypy and other tools. Not even remotely the same >There's different mechanisms for running things concurrently in Python. And there's an active effort to remove the GIL. I also have to ask: What is "real" concurrency? Free threads. And yes this is a deal breaker in tons and tons of situations. I have no idea why people are soooo hard up for python