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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:12PM (#26105068)
> But from say 2012 on there was a big movement of data science and education into Python and its general reputation was quite good.

When Python became popular in education, particularly for first CS courses, is when the public criticism from Scheme, Java, and and C partisans really skyrocketed.

Yeah, it has had recently a generally good reputation. That doesn't mean that it has been untouchable and immune to criticism.

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Re:WTF Python: Exploring and understanding Python through su... by earthboundkid on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:58PM (#26110602)
I’ll agree with that. I think it’s more that the criticisms of the loudest voices has shifted. Once it was “why use an obscure language” then “ugh whitespace” then “dynamic typing is bad” and now more “it’s jumped the shark.”
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