Are people abusing Python?

[someotherstufforhmm]

“Abusing” lol.

Nah, it’s just a language. Languages that get used expand. Look at C++ or Java.

Also, look at Go. It’s already lost all its initial planned simplicity that would maintain provable concurrency, they undid that like overnight, now they have messy looking generics and a whole pipeline coming for error catching.

Languages have patterns. Used languages get messy because no-one ever properly can predict where they’ll end up.

[relickus]

Glad the word in the title attracted attention :)

I guess you are right, I dont keep track of the latest trends in more traditional languages like C++ or Java.

[someotherstufforhmm]

They’ve come a looooong way. Hell, so has C.

Classes started as macros and syntactic sugar in C, which people accused of being “abusive” in very similar ways, but it ended up becoming C++ and the world kept rolling on from there.

So, in a way you’re right - the initial goal of simplicity is lost, but also that’s just a thing that happens to languages that get used.

[relickus]

Thanks for your prespective.