Careful, that attitude is how we ended up with this infestation of JavaScript!
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Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 months ago
Python is the second best language for everything. Having one language that does it all is better than learning several that might do it a little bit better.
bort@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Python is the best “glue” language I’ve ever used. When you want to chain together your program’s high-level logic and all of the loops happen inside other languages like Rust, Go, Zig, D or C, Python’s performance is perfectly adequate and it’s so clear and concise it reads like pseudocode.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 months ago
As long as you do all your lookups with dicts or sets performance is pretty decent for smaller workloads.
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Even worse when you look at a class that’s over 1k long.
sigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
holy shit you’re right
dukk@programming.dev 10 months ago
Speed is a serious problem in Python though. Python has its use cases, and so do other languages. Things would not end well if we started using Python for everything.
noli@programming.dev 10 months ago
This might be an unpopular opinion but python’s speed wouldn’t even be an issue if it was 5x slower than it is now.
Python is a language designed for write-time performance, not runtime performance.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 months ago
If I wanted to write a 3D game engine, I wouldn’t use Python either. But there’s zero chance of me ever doing that. Die 90% of Things 90% of people do, Python works just fine. And the performance thing is actively being worked on and getting better all the time.
Vulwsztyn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nkt since 3.11, python is now one of the fastest languages
dukk@programming.dev 10 months ago
Definitely not even close to being one of the fastest languages, but still faster nonetheless.
Chunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have worked on a lot of real time simulation with python glue. It is… not fun. I’m a better programmer for it though.