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Re:Upcoming Python features brought to you by Python Enhance... by KptMarchewa on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:44AM (#30333354)
>Pythons massive advantage and the reason it’s so successful is it’s simplicity.

Yet, if you use it more than few years, you see how it's just a disguise.

Underneath superficial simplicity there's ton of leaking abstractions, semantics which designers designed themself into the corner, and gigantic C API that blocks any performance improvements.

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Re:Upcoming Python features brought to you by Python Enhance... by N1H1L on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:16AM (#30333780)
Yes. And currently it has also split into several sub-languages almost now. Numpy/Scipy is one, then there is enterprise Python, and the ML Python has its own conventions. That's how big and complex Python today is.
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