Reasons Python Sucks

Elixir has none of these faults, so I guess I will continue to enjoy using it.

Lists and arrays are fundamentally different beasts, though. Shouldn’t most coders understand that?

Reason 2 is getting out of hand for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell and OCaml.

These so called package manager can't manage packages at all. I'd like to call it package downloader. They just download everything from language interpreter to library to a single directory and call it job done. No easy way to remove the package. The interpreter and library's version is forever fixed. Theoretically, it can upgrade the version but the user mostly don't.

I really hate their ecosystem.

My top 3 criticisms as an intermediate (~5 months of study) python programmer:

1. Importing behavior is ridiculous: https://chrisyeh96.github.io/2017/08/08/definitive-guide-pyt...

2. Python libraries' documentation leave a lot to be desired (compared to good javadocs). Just because your language is dynamically typed doesn't mean you don't need to describe what the expected shape of a parameter should be.

3.

   Static method? @staticmethod

   Static variable? declare it outside of your methods but inside your class

   Private method/var? name it: __name (but it's not really private just hard to find)

I'm sure other Java programmers have had a culture shock coming to python as well. I appreciate how concise the language is, the great community and module ecosystem, and how productive it is. But, it feels to me like there's features missing (I've only been seriously programming python for 5 months though, before I was basically just scripting and writing java code in python).

Also the most fun part of learning python has been list comprehensions and itertools, they've really been a revelation. Like when I first learned Ruby procs, blocks, closures and lambdas.

I used to hate python because of of the lack of static typing. I realized the reason I hated it because of that, was due to other people's bad code. One of the nice things with compiled languages that are statically typed is that there's that nice check up front for types. I actually think you need to be a really good developer to properly use dynamically typed languages.