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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by grog_tremor on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:30AM (#35007524)
> it's the only way a tragically slow language like Python can keep up.

Those were your words, not mine. I need not make any assumptions.

I just replied listing use cases where Python shine due to its strengths, performance being mostly irrelevant. I didn't even mention data science.

And although it's beyond the point, if I was to use Python, why should I care in which language a library was written? If the language allows libraries written in other languages, this is actually a nice feature.

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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by UncleEntity on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:38AM (#35007579)
> If the language allows libraries written in other languages, this is actually a nice feature.

That’s actually my primary use case for python, playing with C/C++ libraries in a repl because they don’t natively have one.

Sure, it takes work to wrap a library but that’s something I enjoy doing.

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