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Re:Python Is Eating the World by closeparen on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:16AM (#20672631)
- Language design characteristics like static typing and a general lack of support for "magic" can help maintain order in large, long-term, many-contributor codebases.

- The JVM and CLR are both significantly faster and less resource intensive than CPython for a lot of workloads.

- Java and .NET library ecosystems are mature and extensive. Python 2's ecosystem was also mature and extensive, but the community is in the process of throwing it away.

- The real heavy lifting for media transcoding, storage, and serving is certainly not done in Python. Python is acting as orchestration glue for C/C++ programs there, which is a role it does well.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by KptMarchewa on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:48AM (#20673655)
>general lack of support for "magic"

Don't throw this kind of comments when in next line you're mentioning Java, where everything worth using is implemented by reflection fuckery.

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