[luord]

I have been a developer for eight years and yet I still get shocked about the places where Python will be used. I mean, it is my favorite language, but in the communities I gravitate towards (basically communities like HN) it has so many detractors for being dynamically typed, not being functional enough, being slow, etc, that sometimes I'm tempted to think maybe it's actually a guilty pleasure of mine, and that I should look for better pastures.

Then I read articles like this and I remember why I like it: it gets the job done, and quickly (for the developers at least). It's why it's so widely used and keeps climbing. Of course, nothing wrong with learning other languages and I do try to keep up, but Python will remain my go-to for the time being.

[mst]

People who make complaints like that are privileging their own personal aesthetics over pragmatism.

Same mistake as the people who keep talking about perl being "dead" while they're deploying their production platforms on debian or red hat based systems and ignoring the fact that the packaging and release QA work for those distros is substantially dependent on - actively maintained by the distros in question - perl projects.

[lmm]

Sounds like someone else is putting their personal aesthetics over pragmatism. Perl is a dead language walking, the fact that there are some tools it hasn't been worth rewriting doesn't contradict that.

[mst]

I'm talking about actively chosen new development because it's still the dynamic language most oriented towards being comfortable as part of a unix environment rather than simply running on top of one.

Modern async/await + heavily OO based perl is not, I suspect, the language that you're thinking of when you made your comment.