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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by bodge5000 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:41PM (#47445737)
> If no one self-writes code anymore anyway, at least use a language that isn't a clusterfuck of bad design decisions

I can get behind the idea that LLM's probably don't need a language designed for humans if humans arent writing it, but the rest of this is just daft. Pythons popularity isn't just pure luck, in fact its only been in recent years that the tooling has caught up to the point where its as easy to setup as it is to write, which should really tell you something if people persevered with it anyway.

I'm sorry your favourite language doesnt have the recognition it so rightfully deserves, but reducing python to just "stupid language for stupid people" is, well, stupid

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by sitkack on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:16PM (#47447091)
Python is the blub language now.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by mapontosevenths on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:02PM (#47449482)
Keep in mind that when Graham coined that term Java and C++ were considered blub languages.

Speaking as a grey beard myself, I think its safe to say that the grey beards among us will always deride those who didn't have to work as hard as they did.

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by hilbertseries on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:27PM (#47449684)
And Python is four years older than Java.