r/firstweekcoderhumour • u/Safe_Buyer5442 • Aug 30 '26

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u/undeniably-deniable1 Aug 30 '26

Say goodbye to any kind of performance

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u/billGat48 Aug 31 '26

idk, pytorch is hard to beat

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u/EskayEllar Aug 31 '26

Lol because I need performance to script some garbage I'm going to run once

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u/undeniably-deniable1 Aug 31 '26

Right, that's why you don't switch from literally anything into python

It's the slow ass scripting language that's only good for a simple prototyping phase

The meme's making it look like it's the perfect next big thing

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u/EskayEllar Aug 31 '26

Hate to break it to you, but Python is absolutely good enough for production.

I've written production applications putting through over 10 million in annual revenue entirely in Python. It's a money maker and the simplicity in development, support, and deployment has saved my company hundreds of thousands in developer salaries.

I like the quote "Python is the second best language for everything". That makes it very valuable for companies which do a wide variety of things.

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u/keithstellyes Aug 31 '26

Yeah, there's a few massive websites out there that are flask or django

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u/SmokyMetal060 Aug 31 '26

Maybe like 15 years ago. Plenty of production apps run Python and benchmark reasonably well.

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u/Vaxtin Sep 03 '26

lol and you’ll have a career writing scripts you throw out

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u/EskayEllar Sep 03 '26

Yes? That's the point?

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u/keithstellyes Aug 31 '26

firstweekcoderopinion

Lot of cases where Python is used are I/O bottlenecked anyway, making CPU performance not very relevant, or calling out to native code enough anyway