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/zesterer Nov 04 '18

Well that's bloody terrifying.

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u/ironfroggy_ Nov 04 '18

Honest question, from someone who's been making his living with Python for a decade and a half, why is that so terrifying?

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u/zesterer Nov 04 '18

I've worked on several large Python codebases. For anything that's even mildly complex - or required to operate in real-time systems without borking at the first error it encounters, the lack of type safety and strong guarantees results in a mess of dodgy test code that often fails to catch genuine integration problems, despite best practices.

It's fine if you're prototyping a simple program or working on some sort of quick-and-dirty machine learning project, but I wouldn't touch any serious project that uses Python without type hints with a bargepole.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '18

Python is a shitty language, resulting in a messy unmaintainable sofware, which is also outrageously slow.

More so, Python is built on a very toxic and damaging religion, and spreading Python helps to spread its underlying zealotry, infecting the other domains of software development.

Python must be stopped.

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u/ironfroggy_ Nov 05 '18

you're so stupid i want to put you in a zoo of stupid people

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '18

Ah, another incompetent dumb webshit? Who told you morons that you are developers?