Python Is a Bad Programming Language

I don't like Python that much either but I disagree with a lot of points.

I agree with the indentation used for limiting blocks, but that is just subjective preference.

Not really fond of access modifiers, I think some form of naming convention can achieve the same without restricting possibilities, from the development side at least.

Object orientation is quite awesome if you use it when it makes sense. As someone who develops a lot of C, the motivation behind it was understandable. I still think a language should give options here, not have restriction like they exist in Java. I don't want to look at hundreds of files to retrace executions.

Dynamic typing has advantages and disadvantages. I cannot say it isn't convenient, but it comes at a price.

That said, learning Python seems like quite a good idea. It can be used for system administration to high level machine learning and is a tool that can be employed almost everywhere for any problem without too much hassle.

If we wouldn't have Python, people would write more Javascript.

> the only reason it’s so popular today is because Google pushed it so hard in the first decade of the 2000s

I've been using Python since the 1990s and I remember the Python conference really growing because of Zope. Later was Django, and NumPy finally solidified the previous numarray, Numeric, etc. confusion, which helped with a lot of scientific and engineering projects.

I struggle to think of what big influence Google had in the first decade of the 2000s. The "abc" module? Getting people to use App Engine? van Rossum had 50% time to work on Python, and I believe Google employed a few other core developers?

> They probably would have wanted to embrace Java, as they were already using it with Android,

Umm, but they were using Python from the beginning. Flash back to 1995 (!), quoting Scott Hassan at https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/valley-of-genius-exc... :

] And I was fixing some of the bugs that he was having with Java .... And I remember thinking, Wow, this is insane!, because I was spending a lot of time fixing this underlying tool. And so one weekend, I just took all his code, I took his whole entire thing, and threw it all out, ... I knew I could get the thing working if I used a language I knew very well, called Python. ... So Larry went from barely downloading a 100, to doing 32,000 [pages] simultaneously on a single machine.

That's why Python was already established at Google long before Android.

Anyway, this essay contains the usual criticisms about Python:

- 2 vs. 3 (a valid opinion a few years ago, IMO, but fading now)

- requires an explicit 'self'

- no distinction between declaration and initialization

- no private variables

- whitespace indentation instead of braces

- dynamic typing

- no constants

Those seem like valid personal opinions, but little more than that.

I don't know, it works great for me. I just launch python and write my code without any obstacles. It could be because i know the language really well, but still.

I honestly don't get it. Why do people who don't write in python mind that I write in python? I don't mind that they don't write in python.

Hilarious how little of Python's history is considered/known in the post.

> For a very long time, Python had two major versions running around in the wild. They are, of course, Python 2 and

Python was popular long before that, and the most recent explosion in popularity came with the rise in data science.