[mort96]

> 2. No need to import external libraries written in other languages just to multiply two matrices.

I suppose I maybe get the "no need to import external libraries" thing, 'pip3 install numpy' is technically an extra step that wouldn't have been necessary if the standard library contained a decent matrix module.

But why do you care about the "written in other languages" part? That has literally never caused issues for me with Python. Especially something as popular as numpy just works across all platforms I've tried (x86_64 Windows, Linux and macOS, aarch64 Linux and macOS). Do you frequently encounter issues which are caused by the Fortran portion of Numpy's source code?

[enriquto]

> Do you frequently encounter issues which are caused by the Fortran portion of Numpy's source code?

No practical issues at all. The problem is not the pip install numpy that only happens once, but the import numpy that must appear on every single one of your programs. I interpret it as a permanent reminder that numerical computation is not natively supported in the language, and that we will always be foreigners in there.