I must be stuck in the past. What's great about lambda functions in Python?
I think the parent isn't talking about lambda functions, but about python code deployed on the AWS Lambda
They support many languages, and you have to pay more for slower ones
Re:Is Python the Future of Programming?
by nicodjimenez on Saturday July 21, 2018 @09:18PM
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hey yeah I meant AWS lambda functions! I think they are better suited for serverless than JS because JS is so asynchronous, hard to debug, and really designed for an event loop that lasts forever. I tried doing AWS lambda with JS but I found it much less intuitive than Python for AWS lambda, in the same way NodeJS is more intuitive for writing servers with lots of async logic than Python.
Hah, if you had told anyone that five years ago they would have been very confused. "What are you talking about? Lambdas in Python are horribly neutered..."
Back to what you actually meant, I think that lambda functions will get simpler to use in every language, and I think JS will extend a lead there even though I prefer Python as a language.
I should get my "microservices built out of spreadsheets" project (https://6gu.nz) onto AWS Lambda to get in on the zeitgeist though, put a horse in the race. And then somehow get deep learning (and the blockchain...) in there to really cash in on the bandwagon trends.