grog_tremor

I was unaware of the guidelines. For a long time I was only a lurker here.

I won't contribute any other way however. Perhaps I don't feel comfortable having an "identity others can relate to".

That said, off I go back to read-only mode. Arrivederci.

That account is actually a few days old.

My guess is that GP does the same as me. Create a throwaway account, use for a few weeks, then abandon it to create a new one.

This account I'm posting from is close to EOL, for example.

Just a sec, need to find the crack on astalavista

> 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.

I sometimes wear earbuds or headphones just to avoid people trying to talk to me.

I'm not even listening to anything, those things are completely silent. I just don't want contact with people.

Eh, you massively overestimate the importance of performance.

For the vast majority of use cases, performance just isn't a priority. Doubly so for Python, that shines for simple automation, command line applications, and perhaps some serveless computing.

Being easy to write, having a good ecosystem of libraries, and being widely known is typically good enough. I wouldn't use Python to write a robust backend server side application, mostly because the language doesn't lend itself well for it.

Speaking here as an employee that was affected by layoffs in one of those companies that hired like crazy during the pandemic.

I see no problems in their behavior. The insane rate of hiring was useful to give a good boost to my salary in a couple of years.

Here's to hoping they go back at hiring like crazy again.