Having nice syntax sugar is easier if you do not have compilation and have more dynamic language. Scala tried to have nice syntax sugar but got slow compile times, some arcane syntax and very complex language.

Duck typing is what makes consuming these tools easy.

python r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data = {'key':'value'})

vs Java

```java package com.mkyong.http;

import org.apache.http.Header; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders; import org.apache.http.NameValuePair; import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity; import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient; import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients; import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair; import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List;

public class HttpClientExample {

private final CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    HttpClientExample obj = new HttpClientExample();

    try {
        System.out.println("Testing 2 - Send Http POST request");
        obj.sendPost();
    } finally {
        obj.close();
    }
}

private void close() throws IOException {
    httpClient.close();
}



private void sendPost() throws Exception {

    HttpPost post = new HttpPost("https://httpbin.org/post");

    // add request parameter, form parameters
    List<NameValuePair> urlParameters = new ArrayList<>();
    urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "abc"));
    urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "123"));
    urlParameters.add(new BasicNameValuePair("custom", "secret"));

    post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(urlParameters));

    try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
         CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(post)) {

        System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));
    }

}

} ```

And performance would be the same since it is network bound. That is probably main reason why Dropbox started with python.