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by neuromanser 963 days ago
> I experience a similar sentiment when working with Python. A few hundred lines may be acceptable, but anything larger than that, I believe, is better suited to be written in a compiled language.

Python, IMO, has no niche anymore. A few hundred lines of Python is a hundred lines of Zsh, or the same few hundred lines of C++, and to top it off, there's the shit show of Python tooling for deployment. setup.py, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml… Fifteen files with overlapping contents in twelve different grammars (mild exaggeration), with new ones added every other year. Setuptools can't find your entrypoint…