|
|
|
|
|
|
by v64
1024 days ago
|
|
|
Many comments have commented on the ecosystem, but I've thought a big reason behind python's success is that it's also a well designed language in terms of readability and lack of surprise. My background was in perl and shell scripting before finding python and the absolute beautiful form of the language (that whitespace is significant in more ways than one!) and its utter insistence that There's One And Only One Obvious Way To Do It (more or less) made programming much more ergonomic compared to the other similar scripting languages at the time. |
|
|
From the external POV that's one of my pet peeves with the Python which also soaks into other aspects of the community. Python community seems almost religious and sort of self-righteous about how Python was designed and how things should be done. Other language communities are more open to (self-)criticism.