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by INTPenis 1173 days ago
That's just habitual. Anyone coming from Python could say the same things about another language. The typing never bothered me because you learn to work with it. But there is of course type hinting now, which I barely use.
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I don't think so. I was a Python dev for years, and plenty of other languages don't have the issues Python does. It was a great learning language when I started, but I think most folks that have only used Python just don't realize what they are missing.
Can you give me an example from your recent memory?

I've been coding since the 90s, ASP, PHP, JS, C, Perl, I transitioned from Perl to Python back in 2012-2013. Dabbled in Go when it first came out because I was a Plan9 fanatic and recognized some of the source files, but never went further than tutorials.

Honestly I find very little wrong with the Python ecosystem, except the general insecurity of using package managers. But that applies to most package management, it's a social/infosec issue that Fedora has mitigated fairly well, if you want role models.

The languages that I found most annoying, as a user and developer, were C, Javascript, Typescript and Ruby.