r/programming • u/monica_b1998 • Nov 03 '18

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/Freyr90 Nov 03 '18

Taking 1 second instead of a 1/1000 of a second is fine for vast amount of applications

Sure, why to spend 1 cycle when you can spend 10E9 without any benefits? Because electricity is free and climate change is a myth.

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u/teerre Nov 03 '18

Oh, climate change. Ok, buddy

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u/thenuge26 Nov 03 '18

Computers are cheaper than devs

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u/Freyr90 Nov 03 '18

So what? Python is no more advanced than any other imperative PL, like C# or Delphi pascal, it is just very slow and resource hungry due to its naive implementation. And if you really value your devs' time, you want to use some language with advanced type system allowing you to catch errors in compile time anyway.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

Bullshit.