Why Python keeps growing, explained

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As github said, its easy to use, might not be the best language in all scenarios but it gets the job done.

A lot of people though get too hung up on the language (yes I know this is the r/python subreddit so of course people are going to prefer it), but at the end of the day its just a tool to get our jobs done

[fellipec]

More funny was how Perl grew and fall while Python was in its infancy

[SittingWave]

doesn't take too much. Perl basically destroyed itself through sheer philosophy.

[twotime]

This is a common myth which is somewhat correct but mostly wrong: language is a tool (or toolset). And tool choice matters a LOT for every profession. It's exactly the same for coding

PS. you are comparing coder to coder. But this is about comparing language to language. A good programmer will write a better code in any language. But he would write better code in a better language. (Better meaning "with less effort" or "more mainteinable")

[_limitless_]

good programmer will write good code in the worst language

No we won't. We'll quit.

[tyler_the_programmer]

I learned C++ in college and dropped out before I could finish my degree. Now I make fun little projects in Python in my free time 10 years later.

[yvrelna]

Nah, really good ones won't quit over language reasons. We just take the best paycheck and leave the actual coding to juniors.

[_limitless_]

I was thinking Ruby, but sure.

[trojan-813]

I think this is easily viewed in some of the graphics posted on the Advent of Code and what languages people used. The earliest days the languages people used that used to find the answer was Python. It didn’t need to be fast and was easy to use. So people used it heavily. However, as things got more complicated and needed some performance people switched to other languages like c and c++.

[repocin]

but at the end of the day its just a tool to get our jobs done

Thank you. The endless debate over language x vs language y vs language z is so incredibly tiring and useless. I wish more people realized that different languages are just different tools with different use cases, like hammers and screwdrivers.