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by jgb1984 1272 days ago
I came here to say the same. The author clearly has only a very superficial knowledge of python (and a large distaste for it).

Throughout my studies and career I've written c, c++, java, javascript, perl, bash, python and a little bit of go. Python for me is by far my favorite and most productive language. Expressive syntax, an unmatched wealth of useful libraries and most importantly: when I come back to code I wrote months ago I can easily read and understand it! Which can't be said of my old perl code.

I also love how python has been picking up steam lately, 3.6 - 3.11 have been splendid releases with plenty of goodies in each one.

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>The author clearly has only a very superficial knowledge of python (and a large distaste for it)

I wouldn't make assumptions like that. I've worked with production Python codebases. In fact, until recently I was working as a DevOps Engineer in a hedge fund building much bigger, more complex systems than a typical CRUD backend. I worked hands on with some of the Python repositories and it was extremely painful simply because of the nature of Python.