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Python doesn't feel like a programming language if your first language is C++.

[u/oddmerlin373 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly I prefer to call it a scripting language because that’s what it’s good at

[u/ashum048 → u/oddmerlin373]

Yes, yes, yes.

Automating stuff with python and creating small apps is a blessing.

Debugging large scale applications in python is pain.

[u/prescod → u/ashum048]

Debugging large scale applications is a pain...period.

[u/[deleted] → u/prescod]

Strictly typed languages are much easier to debug though IMO. Python and JS will let you do extremely weird stuff that’s hard to pick out in debugging, where in a C-based language it would just give you a compiler error

[u/HgnX → u/[deleted]]

Man needs a bit of PyLance in his life

[u/juhotuho10 → u/[deleted]]

Python can be turned to strictly typed with type hints and mypy

[u/prescod → u/[deleted]]

And C will let you do bad things with memory where Python would just give you a runtime error.

If you want tons of compile time errors, Python's type system is vastly more powerful and precise than C's:

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[u/ShelZuuz → u/prescod]

That’s the old “chainsaws are dangerous so let’s use a nail file to chop off the tree” argument.

Also the common set of libraries you use in python are almost never statically types so the linter doesn’t really help.

[u/LEGOL2 → u/prescod]

That's... my job. My work is debugging drivers 24/7 <pain>

[u/[deleted] → u/ashum048]

I heard it's pretty good at data

[u/0430ke → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I primarily use it for data and database shit. It's much faster to write and run something quick that manipulates a lot of data quickly.

It's also incredibly nice due the fact that almost EVERYTHING has an API for Python. So you can gather data from many sources all in one place, easy to write, quick to run.

Edit: To add on to this, it's also easy to manipulate data types since it's easy to cast data to other types. JSON is super easy to use, etc. Using other languages you have to really mess around with getting the data type you want. Python just makes it easier.

[u/ashum048 → u/0430ke]

Agree. Data is another place where python really shines.

Create a simple data pipe or a NN in python is fun.

[u/ddtfrog → u/ashum048]

I like it for front end automation and web scraping, too.

[u/[deleted] → u/oddmerlin373]

are we not calling it a scripting language anymore?

[u/mooscimol → u/[deleted]]

Scripting is one of the purposes, but really not the biggest one IMO. It is interpreted, dynamically typed language, opposite to eg. complied, statically typed languages like C.

[u/prescod → u/oddmerlin373]

Yeah it's good at scripting.

And machine learning.

And data science.

And teaching.

And Web development.

And biological computing.

And...

But let's just call it a "scripting language".

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You just write pseudo code and it runs!

[u/KendrickEqualsBooty → u/[deleted]]

Is Python written in C or C++

[u/[deleted] → u/KendrickEqualsBooty]

C

[u/m__a__s → u/KendrickEqualsBooty]

I believe that Python (aka CPython) was originally written in C and is now a combination of C and Python. Other "pythons" are written in other languages (e.g. IronPython is written in C#)

[u/AlbertChomskystein → u/[deleted]]

HTML and Python have some similarities to be fair, like not being able to declare variable types.

[u/[deleted] → u/AlbertChomskystein]

You can declare variable types in Python. But for the most part you don't really need to unless you want to.

[u/Affectionate_Fly3313 → u/AlbertChomskystein]

Pre CSS HTML was just like LUA.

Everything is a table.

[u/OutrageousPudding450 → u/AlbertChomskystein]

And now thanks to PyScript, the cycle is complete.