Comment by rhubarbtree

10 hours ago

This is the main reason. Pythons ecosystem also has silly trends and package churn, and plenty of untrained developers. It’s the lack of a proper standard library. As bad a language as it may be, Java shows how to get this right.

> As bad a language as it may be, Java shows how to get this right.

To be fair Java has improved a lot over the last few years. I really have the feeling that Java is getting better, while C++ is getting worse.