Comment by joshheitzman
11 hours ago
It's not. OP just has a hate-on for Python. Python is widely used in many domains and has one of the richest ecosystems of packages.
11 hours ago
It's not. OP just has a hate-on for Python. Python is widely used in many domains and has one of the richest ecosystems of packages.
I love Python,i have been writting Python since 2.2 era, Is great. Bit it's slow as hell, Django is slow, and the filters and custom shit to hit db on the template makes it slower. The parameters styles are too many and now instead of removing things they keep adding features, ok no Gil Is great but match? They should stop now. I hope i will never have to use custom cython modules again. I have even used Python in asterisk agi fastagi etc. But it's really slow and we should accept that
I don't really disagree with any of that and I have my own complaints about Python. Personally I would have been happy if they stopped at Python 2.7 but I also have numerous complaints about all of the programming languages I use heavily. There's no perfect language.
Popular and/or widespread does not mean good. Common misconception.
There is more than one axis (or two or three). One some axis popular and/or widespread is required for good. You can't have very large number of readily available libraries applicable to many domains without a language being popular and/or widespread.