Crippled lambdas, no pattern matching, no static typing (also no HKT), no macros, no threads, no actors, no currying, no practical FP, the list goes on and on..
Moreover, the performance is awful, everything is boxed, and there’s no support for tail call eliminating.
Compared to Scala, OCaml, Common Lisp, or Racket, Python doesn’t even come close in terms of power and speed as the aforementioned languages.
I use python everyday and I find it very hard to work with. I do quant/ml/data science work with it and python has the best libraries of any language in those fields. But there’s no real reason why that should be the case besides maybe that python is so lacking in features that it takes 30 minutes to learn.
Moreover, the performance is awful, everything is boxed, and there’s no support for tail call eliminating.
Compared to Scala, OCaml, Common Lisp, or Racket, Python doesn’t even come close in terms of power and speed as the aforementioned languages.
I use python everyday and I find it very hard to work with. I do quant/ml/data science work with it and python has the best libraries of any language in those fields. But there’s no real reason why that should be the case besides maybe that python is so lacking in features that it takes 30 minutes to learn.