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by Yxven 2650 days ago
You do realize that "vast selection of easy-to-use libraries" is the most important feature of a programming language. Right? It's up there with, "it's not hard to hire programmers for the language", which Python also benefits from.

Like, I'm partial to Haskell, but if I'm actually trying to get work done, I reach for a language with a robust ecosystem. These days I reach for Typescript, but before then, python was my go-to since it's way nicer to program with than java/c++/c/javascript.
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ernst_klim 2645 days ago
>You do realize that "vast selection of easy-to-use libraries" is the most important feature of a programming language.

No, it's not. When I switched from Python to OCaml it felt like blessing, since the quality of the libraries felt much higher in OCaml. There are also the projects that you have to build from the ground up without libraries (any mission critical software), and in such cases you don't care about libraries at all, you care about the merits of the language solely.

Python is the BASIC of the XXI century, and it's fine in that role, but not as a general purpose language.

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mruts 2650 days ago
Python really only has libraries that can’t be found in other languages in a small domain: data science, statistics, ML, and finance.

Unfortunately for me, those are all things I do at my job. Outside of these domains, JVM libraries are much better.

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