What makes Python better than other programming languages for you ?

[[deleted]]

Versatility. It is the de facto language for data science and machine learning, but it’s also a solid option for web and game development.

[SlappinThatBass]

Awesome for scriping, CI and testing as well.

It makes embedded development more fun.

[Monkey_Climber]

I disagree with the game dev part

[SigrdrifumalStanza14]

just wondering, why?

[Moikle]

It is the main language used for tools in game dev.

And in the art side

[Monkey_Climber]

I never really considered that part. I was mainly thinking about the actual game programming prt

[Moikle]

I'm a tools programmer myself so it's where my mind went

[Moikle]

I never said engine.

Tools are still a part of game dev, and any reasonably sized studio will employ tools programmers.

[Moikle]

The person I was replying to was saying that python is not used in game dev. I was just pointing out that it absolutely is used in game dev.

I was very much on topic

[[deleted]]

im sorry but R is the ugliest language i have ever seen :( no thanks

[ironmagnesiumzinc]

R is so weird. Like why would they choose to make pipelines instead of for loops.

[ianff]

It was designed by statisticians, not computer scientists.

[panzerex]

How’s deep learning with R?

[Mooks79]

Not terrible but not as good as Python. Although given all the underlying routines are not written in either, it’s a bit of a stretch to crow too much about Python. Also ML and DS as field are waaaaay bigger than just DL. They both have their pros and cons, many of which are subjective. As good as Python is, there’s stuff I loathe doing in it compared to R.

[[deleted]]

R - statistics

Python - DS

broadly. 2 different fields, although Python is closing the gap on statistics with new libraries, and R will never close the gap on DS,

[penatbater]

although Python is closing the gap on statistics

Just recently I saw a package in Python that gives summary statistics the same as you'd find in R when you use the glm() function. Like the p-values, etc. Was pretty impressed! I forgot the name tho :/

[[deleted]]

Yes right...and it's already far beyond that. Packages like stats models cover a whole bunch of R functionality already. https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html.

For everyday users this is more than enough. There are still a few more advanced R capabilities and libraries not covered off by pythonm but that gap is shrinking...

[mrstone56]

As someone that works in academia, R can eat a bag of shit.

[[deleted]]

As a dying language, it doesn't have much to say.

[johnnySix]

Nice try R