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by privatelypublic 267 days ago
And the inexperienced. I got hyped over golang a while back because of go routines. Then I discovered any remotely recent .net version already had what I needed. (I'm a c# dev by default)

Python makes me want to pull my hair out though. Full blown virtual machines make running it tolerable, but the language's inconsistencies... though, I keep trying because I'm hoping theres patterns I don't see.
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foobarbaz33 266 days ago
> ...I keep trying because I'm hoping theres patterns I don't see.

Python's popularity is an accident of timing. If you're digging deep for wisdom and gold nuggets you're not going to find any. The gold of python is the surface level stuff. Easy to type for hunt-n-pec typers. Press tab to indent is easier than {}.

That's all it took for an army of noobs who wanted to be "hackers" to choose Python. Then they grew up, got real jobs and brought Python with them.

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balder1991 266 days ago
I think it was simply the rise of machine learning frameworks. Python was always advertised as good to prototype, test ideas etc. Then the network effect compounded recently: https://youtu.be/ZTPrbAKmcdo

I’d even risk saying Python’s popularity is one symptom of the AI bubble we’re in.

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