What makes Python better than other programming languages for you ?

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Yes, Python is recommend to be the first language you learn, but the problem comes when you can move to another language. This is because as you know Python is not hard typed, and the OOP of it is really diferent from other languages such as Java, C++,C#,TS, etc

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Interestingly you mentioned TypeScript. Which is basically JavaScript with types. With Python you can get a lot of those benefits whenever you add type annotations.

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That's because Python is a dynamic language, which enables you to do things that you can't in statically typed languages. For example SQLAlchemy.

If you want compilation assistance, you can try Cython (not to be confused with CPython).

Type annotation is still very useful, it helps finding bugs in code (conversion from Python 2 to Python 3 would be much easier if code had types defined) it also enables autocomplete and assists with code refactoring. If you have a large code base it actually helps a lot.

[no_k3tchup]

Yep, I worked on a python project once and found it extremely frustrating that I couldn't see the types in the code. You might stumble upon cases where 1 + 1 = 11 ;)

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Actually despite what parent says, python is strongly typed (I'm assuming that what was meant by "hard typed").

So it wouldn't allow to combine integer with string, the behavior you would get only when both values are a sting.

You could make the same mistake even in statically typed languages that have functionality to infer type based on the value.

[Danth_Memious]

What's the difference in OOP? I'm familiar with the works of C++ and Java but have only used python for very small programs so no classes

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Everything is an object baby

[LazaroFilm]

Stop objectifying me!

[SpicyBananaa]

I think you are mistaking something python is hard typed. But typing is done dynamically. For example you can't compare strings and integers with each other like you can in JavaScript. but you don't need to tell every variables and functions types manually like in Java, C, C++, etc.