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by wexq 1874 days ago
I'm not a particularly experienced or good Lisp programmer, I can customize Emacs, but that's pretty much it.

However, I think this article is a bit skewed and not highlighting things Python has.

For instance, the standard library means that Python is more usable out of the box.

Also when you've got things like iPython or Jupyter it means you can get off the ground easily.

So, in the end, they're two different languages, and I do not think either is better of the two. Right tool for the job and all that.

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This point seems to be addressed in the “State of the Libraries” section[0]

[0]: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/pythonvslisp/#state-of-the-li...

Not really, the basic Python install has a lot of things ready to use without any external libraries.