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I’m a scientist that has been coding almost exclusively in Python for the past decade and I strongly disagree.

Python is great at being the glue that holds everything together, and everything crunchy part of the program is being handled by a library anyways.

I code with two terminals, one for iPython and one for vim. And you don’t need anything else. The beauty of Python is that it’s not a language that is so full of boilerplate that you need an IDE to type it for you to be remotely productive.

Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works and don’t need to spend years learning programming paradigms and industry practices. Fortran and C are so unwieldy in comparison and everything more modern lacks the expansive and diverse libraries of Python.

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SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m a scientist

And this is exactly why you like Python. You haven’t had to use it at a truly large scale. See also my comment here: feddit.dk/comment/5769585

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works

This is why you find it easy, and why the person you replied to finds is a big pain. The friction other lamguages would give you exists to provide structure on a larger scale that that guy has to deal with. Hence, different languages for different jobs.

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