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Discussion on: Why all this hate about Python?

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shaun ryan • Edited

ego's don't like it when something hard is made accessible and easier for a more inclusive community of people. It undermines all their hard work and they believe makes them less valuable.

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Evan Oman

While I agree with the sentiment that Python can get more hate than it deserves, this is a pretty reductive summary of a large number of legitimate criticisms of Python as a language.

Python, being a tool, makes different tradeoffs from other available tools. The "ease" with which you can write Python comes with certain tradeoffs which are serious language features, not arbitrary protectionist gatekeepers for an elitist group of developers.