[xz0r]

Instagram uses Python.

[pharmakom]

And? I think you can find an example of every major language at scale.

[kamaal]

Python is hard to read if you use vim and don't use something like lsp.

IDE's make languages like Python really easy to read. Plus these days you also have type hints in Python as well.

[Seirdy]

"IDE features are language smells"

-- Reg Braithwaite

[kamaal]

Yeah, Ideally we should all be using Common Lisp. But let's not go down that debate again.

[Seirdy]

My interpretation of that quote is that if a language is so complex and unergonomic that it needs complex tooling for developers to be productive, then maybe the language is poorly designed.

Advanced tooling should be a nice-to-have, not a requirement.