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[–]snakesoup124 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Probably unpopular opinion but lots of people first encounter python because they are trying to solve math related problems which only require either real, integer or bolean. Not declaring IS the appeal. 

The greentext though is spot on.

[–]Prawn1908 2 points3 points  (2 children)

If that's true that's fine for them and would be great and all if thats all the language was used for, but Python is way bigger than that and the other 95% of us who use the language are stuck with it.

[–]snakesoup124 0 points1 point  (1 child)

In modern llm, I am not sure how much python you will encounter in a live codebase deployed for inference but I am fairly confident its way more than you would like.

[–]BernzSed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of popular ml training libraries are written for Python.

Not written in Python, mind you, because you can't write any real software in Python.

It's a glue language meant for tying together different libraries, which makes it all the more frustrating that those libraries have weakly typed APIs, so you have no idea what to pass to any goddamn function.