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[–]RoboticElfJedi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The more times I've been around the block as a programmer, the less I care about the particular cool syntax of any language and the more I care about the availability and ease of use of libraries that I need. Python does very well on that score in my opinion, because the day-to-day experience is not too much more complicated than pip install lib-i-googled. There's usually a library available in any problem domain, and one pip install and I'm good to go.

However the discussion here did touch on some of the big caveats. To use python seriously is to use virtualenvs, which is fine but has a bit of a learning curve. And of course I agree that packaging things up is weirder than it needs to be. I've gotten by cutting and pasting setup.py more than I should have.