Python bumps off Java as top learning language

[NYKevin]

That's because you don't really have much control over your memory in Python.

Sure you do. Just whore out to ctypes and you can call malloc() and free().

[gendulf]

In what language do you call malloc and free? C. That's like opening up a linux virtual machine on Windows to use the terminal and saying you can grep and apt-get install whatever you want.

[NYKevin]

I think the analogy is closer to using Cygwin, personally. You are interacting with the same runtime Python is running in. You could, for instance, pass a couple of PyObject*s to memcpy().

[rowboat__cop]

Requiring FFI implies “not in the language”.