[OutOfHere]

Your original objection is altogether irrelevant. It and Python miss the point of what matters, which is the end result in teams. And I never actually said Rust; you did. Rust is not the answer to everything. It is easy to spot a religious zealot as you are for Python -- these people are the worst for the Python community as their blindness prevents from making the hard changes necessary for keeping up with the times.

Using your logic, someone could similarly argue that C is a perfectly fine language if used with appropriate tooling which checks for errors, but it would be a similarly bogus argument.

[rglullis]

The thread started with "Python lack abstractions to help thinking n large scale systems".

I am not saying Python typing story is perfect in reducing errors or making code safe, I am just saying that the abstractions to "help manage large scale systems" are there.

No talk about "the end result in teams". No talk about "adoption on startups". I just called out a ridiculous, demonstrably false claim and you for some reason want to completely redefine the discussion around your opinion.

[OutOfHere]

For the record, what I stated is fact, not opinion. Python is a fine language for the disciplined lone developer, but a terrible one for most teams. And it is not up to you to suppress this fact as you surely seem to want to do.

[rglullis]

If you want to make the case that Python is too flexible and it does not have guardrails for less experienced developers and undisciplined teams, I'd agree 10000%. I'm still traumatized by my time working in an academic setting and having to make sense of some bioinformatics packages.

If you want to make the case that some other language makes a better fit for a world where LLMs and people can work at the same time and need to deal with complex codebases, fine.

You can even make the case where language expressiveness is less desirable now that LLMs can deal with implementation details and "engineers" can go by simply with English and UML.

These would all be interesting arvuments and worthy of a conversation. But again, this has nothing to do with the original point of the discussion.

[OutOfHere]

I am not going to sit back and let you fool users into an incorrect conclusion falsely insinuating the safety of a Python project when I know that it isn't safe due to the pervasive poor team discipline that hounds most teams. You're just complaining that your scam got busted.

I think Python could be okay as long as appropriate tooling is aggressively added to the project right at its start, with strict CI enforcement. At that point it residually becomes a culture issue which remains poor.

[rglullis]

> let you fool users into an incorrect conclusion

You continue to argue over something that was not on the table. That tells me that you just have an axe to grind.

> At that point it residually becomes a culture issue which remains poor.

Ok, so we are clear that the language itself is not missing the abstractions. I guess that's all I wanted to hear. Thank you, we are done.

[OutOfHere]

The culture issue is unfixable. Python attracts good engineers but it overwhelmingly also attracts bad engineers who don't give a rat's azz about code comprehension and maintainability. These engineers last long enough to get a new job elsewhere, and the ones left are holding the bag. Type-enforced languages seem to avoid this problem. I am willing to bet that type-enforced languages have a lower rate of failed projects that last less than four years.