Cheers friend!

One tremendous strength of Python no one has mentioned is its vast ecosystem of high quality packages. It’s not just the language features that speed up development, that ecosystem makes a huge difference.

Another (far more subjective) advantage is readability - when written according to Python’s (actually quite opinionated!) style guidelines and general software engineering best practices, Python is also extremely readable, which really facilitates teamwork. My software shop has transitioned to using Python for most things these days for that reason, away from JS, after seeing my work and code reviews, FWIW.

I’m not some wizardly dev, to be clear, but I’m this shop’s first senior dev specializing in Python. I write deliberately clean and readable Python and folks are really enjoying it - enough to voluntarily switch.

Performance is always listed as a Python drawback, and it’s not untrue, it’s just so overblown as a problem. It basically never causes me issues. Crucially, saving dev time is almost always the better choice compared to saving compute cycles. And I’d take that farther and say anyone junior enough to be wondering about Python and performance…is almost certainly working on tasks that Python is well suited to - better suited, than most other languages.

(Hopefully this was not too controversial, but I accept the risk of a flame war, as is tradition lol)

Edit: clarity

Your mom’s a bait!

Okay joke is played out, sorry I’m done

Ahem. This is the internet, surely you’re aware of where you are?

What, you’re just gonna…agree to disagree or something? Throwing out decades of tradition? What’s next? Just gonna let someone be factually incorrect about something without a word of recrimination or even basic correction?!

You’re headed down a dark path.

Utterly tone deaf, some of these guys, it’s amazing. Had a new CEO open a meeting shortly after he started with a story about visiting an apiary (bee farm) with his family. His unironic takeaway which he shared with us, somehow missing the poignant relevance of what he was saying - “It turns out the drones just don’t do very much”.

It was like he intended an ice breaker with a personal anecdote, and it started out fine, but he couldn’t help but just tell literally all of us how he really feels. Amazing.

I like my genes pure, unmodified whatsoever - just the way they arise from the primordial soup.

Whoops 😅

Nah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily “imminent doom for Twitter” big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I’m aware of) has ever successfully “forced” their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.

Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.

Jesus, famous pipe-layer

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

What do you do instead for dynamic values that are needed at runtime and inappropriate to check in to version control?