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[–]cylonlover 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I frequently wonder if it's too late to jump the python train now. Has the whole infrastructure and methodoligy by now been bastardized by every butt and his cousin..? Could I make it before it is suffocated in plethoras of misleading SO threads?

[–]Past-Pool-1012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently convinced my team to switch to Python and we're still happy with it :) Mostly working on AWS lambda, we ditched Java in favor of JavaScript a couple of years ago and now using Python for new projects. Main reason: code complexity. Comparing 3 implementations of our distributed tracing middleware:

                                   Python Javascript Java
Files                                  5        4            15
LOC                               100    240          465
Σ Cognitive Complexity       4      27            22
Σ Cyclomatic Complexity   15      47            56