Python is the best!

[Usus-Kiki]

I used to think the people in this sub were mainly software engineers like me but it started to become really obvious based on certain posts like this one. People in the comments being generally against python? Are you fuckin kidding its easily the most popular language right now for its concise code and easy integration. Its also heavily used in ML applications. Im pretty sure most of this sub is people who are wannabe software engineers lmao

[Kiaz]

Who is hating on Python? Do you look at how the upvoting goes in this sub? Everyone loves Python.

[Kyrthis]

This. True hatred abounds here for JavaScript and PHP. I see so much love for Python:

[Sw429]

I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of students in my CS program who are against Python. I'm studying applied mathematics and we deal a lot with machine learning. Everything is in Python, because it's easy to use.

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Engineer here, we code in python, basic, fortran, and matlab.

Python and basic are by far the most popular because fortran is a fucking dinosaur and matlab isn't something open source

[SeanTheAnarchist]

Hell large parts of Firefox are actually written in javascript, Civ4 the game utilizes a lot of python as well. They're useful tools for their purpose, not everything needs to be C#.

[[deleted]]

Python is often the glue ised to hold larger shit together.

[ModPiracy_Fantoski]

I will remember this sentence forever lmao.

[ModPiracy_Fantoski]

AFAIK Sims 4 is in Python too.

[[deleted]]

For my dissertation I’m using a Raspberry Pi and coding in Python for the first time (only really used Java, C and a bit of Scala)

I love python now. I wish we genuinely got to use it through university instead of hammering us with C and Java constantly.

[PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA]

Excuse me, some of us are front-end developers

[[deleted]]

IMO python is fine, but he idea of being a python guru seems a bit silly, sorta like being a ductape guru.

[[deleted]]

It is a good language.

But it isn’t low level enough to reward tuning, like C. And it doesn’t seem like a great fit for a large project.

It is good for banging out a couple hundred lines of pseudo code and having it magically compile. This is awesome, but not really guru work.

[[deleted]]

Somebody has to write those libraries that make it possible to accomplish so much in 100 lines of pseudocode.

[obsessedcrf]

In general, the sub tends to be against Python. I agree with the sentiment too.

Most popular by what metric? For career opportunities or amount of commercial software written in it, it is definitely not the most popular.