[cxr]

The whole "Python is how science gets done" meme is one of the dumbest things we've allowed to be foisted on otherwise unaware/unsuspecting users (such as the kinds of academics who end up being the victims of the Python ecosystem shitshow). Who knows how many setbacks in science we've suffered, not to mention billions of dollars of productivity lost, sticking to such an unworthy programming system/language/environment. All because, like, colons and significant whitespace make programming so much easier to pick up when you compare it to making someone look at curly braces—which, as we all know is the hardest part of programming.

[physicsguy]

Once you start to look at scientific packages in other languages, they have the same issues as Python does, because they start to use scientific libraries written in C and Fortran, as rewriting 50+ years of code is actually really hard.