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by alex_sf 1171 days ago
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.
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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.