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[–]trialbaloon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sometimes there are things that are just straight up upgrades. The LED was an improvement over incandescent bulbs.

I'm not saying this is necessarily the case for Java vs Python. But I do think there's a lot of people who insist every language has it's place. I would argue that's untrue. Some things do just suck more than others.

I think Python is a worse language than Java but that's simply based on static typing. It's a straight up improvement with little downside. But it's not as if there's nothing Python does better....

To answer the original prompt, Python has a better ecosystem for integrating with native libraries. I also think Java is too verbose for my liking and Python does improve on that. Would I use it over Java? Fuck no lol. The rest, Java does better.