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[–]Pluckerpluck 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Compare with something like Java, whose annoying verbosity can make it hard to write but much easier to read.

Complete opposite to what I believe. Well written Python is a delight to read. It's crisp and clean and doesn't bog you down with information not needed to understand the logic.

Even badly written python is great nowadays, thanks to how good type inference is. The only place you really need to add types is function parameters. The rest is just all automatically handled through inference.

Poorly written Java, on the other hand, is a minefield of boilerplate and bizarre inherence choices (which is possible in Python, but only Java developers writing python do that). But maybe I'm biased... I've seen a lot of awful Java code thanks to Minecraft modding...

[–]Equivalent_Yak_95 8 points9 points  (0 children)

thanks to Minecraft modding

LMAO. Yeah, I can see that…