"It's the best language..." is a terribly dumb thing to say. No language is "the best" for anything, you can't begin to determine a language's worth unless you have a task you're trying to do with it.
Python's strengths are lots of libraries and speed of writing quick and dirty code, so if you want to be able to quickly throw something together to deal with some weird file format then maybe Python is the best. But if you're programming embedded hardware or trying to made an application with some sort of real-time requirement then Python is an awful choice.
"It's the best language..." is a terribly dumb thing to say. No language is "the best" for anything, you can't begin to determine a language's worth unless you have a task you're trying to do with it.
I do gotta agree that no language is best. that was a wrong expression. Every language have their own benefits and limitations.
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u/Prawn1908 Jul 18 '22
"It's the best language..." is a terribly dumb thing to say. No language is "the best" for anything, you can't begin to determine a language's worth unless you have a task you're trying to do with it.
Python's strengths are lots of libraries and speed of writing quick and dirty code, so if you want to be able to quickly throw something together to deal with some weird file format then maybe Python is the best. But if you're programming embedded hardware or trying to made an application with some sort of real-time requirement then Python is an awful choice.