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by mgaunard 780 days ago
Python is the world's most popular programming language and a true general-purpose language usable for any application.
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Is that meant to be a joke?
It is an undeniable fact, the numbers don't lie.
What numbers? The amount of operating systems and drivers implemented in Python?
Sorry, I'm not keen on measuring excellence by polling web search engines. Is this how you choose what web pages to visit? You grab a top five from somewhere and only use those, except when you drop by here?

I'm more interested in your claim about "usable for any application". How come all those fancy ML types and learned academics refuse to use Python for the core computations they perform when they try to invent witchcrafts, instead opting for C, C++ and Fortran libraries?

High-performance numerical kernels are hardly general-purpose programming.