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1337toothbrush posted...

I actually hate Python because of its performance issues, dynamic typing, use of indents to indicate blocks of code, and some other things. It's a decent learning language, I suppose, but particularly the lack of type notation doesn't force beginners to think enough about their datatypes and I think that'll come back to bite them

I would be really curious to know what % of python learners go on to other languages

Because i get a lot of utility out of just python for scripting and data analysis

Performance is never a problem with scripting because it just doesnt get that complex

And yea sometimes the data analysis gets slow, but i am guessing for myself and most casual coders, there is plenty of room for optimization to be done within python

But yea i get those objections if the idea is to use python as a gateway to a strongly typed language/career in SWE
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