Languages like Go are arguably easier to use and getting a basic project up and running and sharing it with others is far easier than with Python. If you really care about a scripting workflow, it’s as easy to do ‘go run main.go’ as it is to do ‘python main.py’ for projects without dependencies and for projects with dependencies it’s a lot easier to just do ‘go run main.go’ than configuring a venv and installing your dependencies and then running ‘python main.py’.
Nit: Ocaml is about on par with Go. Some programs will be faster and others will be slower, but OCaml is very much in the same performance tier as Go, Java, and C# (benchmark game prohibits idiomatic Go code for certain benchmarks so it appears artificially slow).
No it does not.
We don't: as you have shown absolutely nothing to back up your claim, it can be flatly rejected.
If you’re here for a language slap fight, you’ll have to find someone else to talk to.
EDIT: good grief, the overwhelming majority of your recent comments are “debates” about the benchmark game. Do you have an alert for references to this phrase or something?
I mean, at what point should we start asking ourselves fundamental questions like "what is so heavenly about Python that we have to carry it everywhere and ensure its installation on every possible platform"?
Example #1: I know a guy who regularly writes scripts in OCaml and laughs at everybody else, saying he gets static types and mega-fast binaries (faster than Golang and slower than Rust) and a very terse syntax (he says it's often as short or shorter than bash even).
Example #2: I recently finally had enough of bash/zsh scripting weirdness for a few tasks I wanted done on my home server so I just learned enough Lua for an hour to make a fairly decent script that did exactly what I expected immediately after I understood a few of Lua's quirks (which are at least consistent and easy to remember, unlike the endless escaping and quoting rules of the scripting shells).
Example #3: I know a few people using a Rust library/tool that makes scripting with it much easier and almost painless. They swear by it.
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I am not even mad at Python for potentially putting hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of baggage on people's machines -- if we start having each app carry its own Python runtime. Meh. Many people would never care (me included). I do get ticked off by it being everywhere however; especially having in mind what an awful language for long-term projects it is (said to me by at least 5x senior Python devs at 40+ of age). And how often it messes up with other work you do on your computer, too -- which is the cherry on the cake and has been guilty of tons of broken Debian system-wide upgrades (among many others).
I wish people stopped getting tempted by "easy to start with" languages and just start seeing the forest and not only the trees... :(