[zmmmmm]

Nice explanation. Python is a great example of this IHMO. It is a real struggle to get the Python programmers on my team to use any other language than Python.

Why? Because it's easy for them. But the solutions they create with it are highly suboptimal. They could be far more robust and expressed much more concisely and directly in other languages with more powerful type systems and better support for eg: functional concepts.

But they actually really think that because Python is easy for them, that it's "simple". It's not: it's incredibly complex.

[SuoDuanDao]

Haha, I was thinking of that as I wrote it. My first language was C++ back in the day, then I dabbled in various languages for a while, and finally really dove into Python because there was a project I couldn't figure out how to write any other way. If I had to work with one of the languages I learned earlier, my first instinct would now be to write the solution in Python and pass it to the legacy program. Perfect example of what the speaker is warning of.