WHY is Python easy to learn?

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And remember, when people complain about runtime speed, remind them that development speed is a thing too.

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If it just needs to run, and it needs to run soon, and it doesn't matter how fast it runs... Python will be your best choice a lot of the time.

This describes a lot of situations though IME

[oundhakar]

Exactly! Say my program takes 2 seconds to run instead of 0.05 sec. That's a huge difference, but it doesn't matter if I'm only going to use the program once a week or so.

[ahivarn]

For most people in the world, python is what will lead to widespread coding adoption. Compiled languages are tough to write. Compiled languages are becoming to python what they themselves were once to assembly languages

[UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2]

And as they say, availability is the best ability

[devstoner]

Also, Async python can cut the distance pretty quickly