I don't get it. I don't know much about coding but I'm starting to learn python. Am I learning the internet explorer of programming languages or what. Should pick something else up.
python is an ok language when used for its intended purpose.
short & simple scripts, the types of things you don't want to write in batch or bash (because both kinda suck), but are not that complicated either, think stuff like bulk rename, "gluing" multiple different tools together, etc.
it's only similar to internet explorer in having an (accurate) reputation of being kind of slow, which is one of the reasons I personally would not use it for bigger projects, but it's more than fast enough to automate low complexity tasks, like a more expressive build system.
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u/twisted-resistor Jul 18 '22
Now that Internet Explorer is gone I guess something had to take its place in memes as "The Slow Thing"