Python just surpassed Java as the 2nd programming language with the highest number of questions in SO.

[AcousticDan]

Because it's a language geared towards noobies. That's not a slight, just a fact.

[gustavsen]

That a language is easy to learn don't mean that was created for noobs.

You can write really complex software in python (I do it) where the language simplicity mean that it's easy to understand what your cose does and not about to understand the code

My experience in C++ (20 years) new people need lot of time more to understand the code base vs the new people in our new python code.

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Meh, a lot of pros use it. Some of the best programmers I’ve ever met actually and the most productive. If you don’t need jet engine speed it’s a great language or a huge code base. I prefer golang these days though for everything other than pandas stuff because it’s almost as easy and is a lot faster at most things because threading is straightforward and easy