The computers are fast, but you don't know it
While I find this comment section fascinating and will read it top to bottom, I can&#x27;t help but make an observation that such articles often comply with:<p><pre><code>    +-------------------------------------------------+
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I find that extremely weird. As a bystander who never relied on Python for anything important, and as a person who regularly had to wrestle with it and tried to use it several times, the language is non-intuitive in terms of syntax, ecosystem, package management, different language version management, probably 10+ ways to install dependencies by now, subpar standard library and an absolute cosmic-wide Wild West state of things in general. Not to mention people keep making command-line tools with it, ignoring the fact that it often takes 0.3 seconds to even boot.<p>Why would a programmer that wants semi-predictable productivity choose Python today (or even 10 years ago) remains a mystery to me. (Example: I don&#x27;t like Go that much but it seems to do everything that Python does, and better.)<p>Can somebody chime in and give me something better than &quot;I got taught Python in university and never moved on since&quot; or &quot;it pays the bills and I don&#x27;t want to learn more&quot;?<p>And please don&#x27;t give me the fabled &quot;Python is good, you are just biased&quot; crap. Python is, technically and factually and objectively, not that good at all. There are languages out there that do everything that it does much better, and some are pretty popular too (Go, Nim).<p>I suppose it&#x27;s the well-trodden path on integrating with pandas and numpy?<p>Or is it a collective delusion and a self-feeding cycle of &quot;we only ever hired for Python&quot; from companies and &quot;professors teach Python because it&#x27;s all they know&quot; from universities? Perhaps this is the most plausible explanation -- inertia. Maybe people just <i>want to believe</i> because they are scared they have to learn something else.<p>I am interested in what people think about why is Python popular regardless of a lot of objective evidence that as a tech it&#x27;s not impressive at all.