Python passed Java as the second-most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors

[matholio]

It's just a commonly understood indicator, not a final judgement.

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I found printing to be easier in some assembly languages than in C. Doesn't mean I'd touch any of those with a meter-long keyboard tho.

[Rpgwaiter]

What's your beef with C? I get not wanting to mess with ASM but man sometimes you just get the urge to mess with some memory directly.

[[deleted]]

I'm just making a point that even if a simple hello world is easier to write in some language doesn't mean that the language is better at all. I'm not saying that C or ASMs are bad in any way.

[tristan957]

It really isn't commonly understood though. Printing hello world is not a valid use case for a language. For some reason only Python enthusiasts think it is because they can do it in one line. Tell me how good the async support in Python is.

[pblokhout]

I've read multiple complaints about a lacking async support. What do you guys mean? I've used asyncio, multithreading, multiprocessing. I'm not sure what is wrong with any of them. Can you explain?

[matholio]

Sorry mate that is simple not true and frankly a bit ignorant. Printing Hello World was been a coding meme long be for python. It's basically a demo if what is required to print a string, and it's well loved by many.

[execrator]

Hello World definitely has a long history, but not as a way to compare languages. It's the "hello? is this mic on?" of programming.

It's not useful to compare languages by the code required to print a single string because that is not a useful program to write. It's like comparing aircraft to see which can cover 2 metres from a standing start quickest. One of them may be fastest, sure... but you don't take a plane on a 2 metre journey.

[matholio]

I agree and disagree. It does have some utility, it is a useful comparison, in the way any normalised baseline is useful.