Why Python keeps growing, explained

Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by heresie-dabord on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:09AM (#35009071)

... and Python _became_ the default tool because the de facto developer consensus (after years of competing languages) is that an interpreted language should

    = be usable, and 

    = provide a set of data structures that an educated programmer *expects to find when scripting*.

Python literally sucked less than the alternatives.

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Re:Why Python keeps growing, explained by kelipso on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:21PM (#35014528)

Python gets introduced to students, so for many people it's the first language they learn. Half the programming community have less than 5 years of experience. I question their ability to evaluate suckage, lol.

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