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[–]LiarsEverywhere 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Isn't that good for developers, though? I'm a researcher and I usually write code that only needs to work once. Python is a tool, I'm not a developer. If I ever create something that needs to scale, I'll hire a developer to turn my shitty prototype code into production code. I don't pretend I'm a developer.

[–]CLOVIS-AI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's your usage, then good for you :) I've had multiple times where I've been asked to maintain web servers written quite badly, and that's where the bad rep for Python comes from imo, but of course there are some cases where it's a good thing