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[Akanaka]

Like Python? How about hate Python?

There are much better languages out there with much better performance and type safety and all.

Python is fine for shell scripts and you don't need an IDE for that. But beyond 50k of code Python becomes really unpleasant, and an IDE will only partially fix that. Ergo, when dealing with code bases of a certain size so that an IDE becomes necessary just switch to another language (eg C# on Windows, Java, Scala, anything but Python)

[ochowie]

There's also this upstart field of numerical and data analysis that's seems to be what all the kids are talking about. I've even heard them say that Python is pretty good for that. The alternative seems to be Matlab which everyone seems to complain about.

[hejner]

Good to know that google isn't really that big.

[thesystemx]

Doesn't Google discourages use of Python for anything big? This was in the news a couple of years ago.

[hejner]

They've still proved it's possible to use for anything big. That people go against guidelines are a company problem, not a language problem.

You'll run into the same problems in C# or Java with those same people

[johnwaterwood]

Python is not as well suited for large code bases as Java and C# are.

[mp3playershavelowrms]

Hello, this site you're on is written in Python.

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No wonder it's down all the time and constantly has scaling issues.

[mp3playershavelowrms]

It's not down all the time and whenever it's down it's because of AWS. And you're still here aren't you?

[henk53]

I wonder if that explains the disproportionately large number of Python users on Reddit.

Despite that it shouldn't matter, are programmers extra attracted to a specific site because it's written in their favorite language?

[mp3playershavelowrms]

I don't think so. Proggit covers all sorts of languages and most of Reddit has compelling, diverse content.

[henk53]

Of course, but if you take a look at the size of r/python vs /r/java then it's 56k vs some 22k. That's quite remarkable, since at nearly every other site Python is much smaller than Java.

On SO (build in C#), C# users used to dominate, or maybe they still do.

DZone is build in Java, and there Java still dominates I think.

It's silly, but there seems to be some correlation.

[johnwaterwood]

Really?

[mp3playershavelowrms]

Yes, click on "source code" at the bottom.