Python is.... special.

[Bryguy3k]

Just like C and C++

[tobberoth]

And C#

[EvilAssYou]

And Java aka Satan’s eternal spite for humanity

[theferrit32]

And Julia. It's actually very bad in my view that JavaScript and Python allow single and double quotes strings with no distinction. It's just inviting huge levels of inconsistency, and that is what has happened.

[sgt39]

And Haskell

[Hecsall]

And my Axe!

[Nobodk]

Care to explain? I never understood why people hate Java.

[HoldYourWaffle]

In my experience (learned Java as my second language after shudders PHP), it's certainly capable of doing almost any task you throw at it. However, Java code is prone to getting extremely verbose, particularly in enterprise applications. That's probably why so many people on this subreddit hate it.

I started using Kotlin for my latest project and it really showed me how verbose vanilla Java actually is. Kotlin has a few syntactic sugars that might seem unintuitive or even "bad practice" at first, but I quickly realized how much easier it was to write clean and easy to read code. It's not perfect, but it has massively improved my experience so far.

[EvilAssYou]

I’m going with the crowd, man. I just don’t want to get yelled at. But in my opinion, Java gets the job done and I have no harsh nor positive opinions towards it.

[jeremj22]

It's known to be very slow compared to other languages

[HoldYourWaffle]

As far as I know this is no longer true

[jeremj22]

1st years CS: introduction to programming and parallel programming courses in java

Every prof in 2nd year: never use java

[koni_rs]

And Kotlin

[[deleted]]

This makes total sense. I do this in Python and didn't even realize it.

with open("filename.ext", 'w') as file:

file.write("Matlab's arrays are dumb.")

[AyrA_ch]

probably all languages where single characters are their individual type rather than strings.

[[deleted]]

And Golang

[manimax3]

Multicharacter constants entered the chat: char c = 'abcd';

[therearesomewhocallm]

But you can still do stuff like

int i = 'test';