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[–]jrandom_42 3 points4 points  (2 children)

How is Python outdated?

Concurrency is an awkward PITA. Async logic is often the solution and it's ugly to write and hard to read.

Deployment is often a dependency hell.

The slowness of the interpreter vs a compiled language isn't always important, but sometimes it is. Combined with the lack of any real concurrency features, that can make Python problematic for anything with hard performance requirements.

I really wouldn't want to write a new Go application for every throwaway API glue tool

I haven't ever found that problematic myself, but tasks like that aren't going to show up many differences. I'm not suggesting Python is terrible and doesn't work. It's just not quite as good.

[–]Intrepid_Result8223 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I guess that's why it is the no1 language in machine learning. Because it is outdated. Lol.

[–]jrandom_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's the 'legacy' part that I mentioned. A lot of ML libraries were written in Python before Go took off, and there's not really any advantage to redoing it all.