Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

boB Stepp robertvstepp at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 22:22:48 EST 2018


This article is written by Nathan Murthy, a staff software engineer at
Tesla.  The article is found at:
https://medium.com/@natemurthy/all-the-things-i-hate-about-python-5c5ff5fda95e

Apparently he chose his article title as "click bait".  Apparently he
does not really hate Python (So he says.).  His leader paragraph is:

"Python is viewed as a ubiquitous programming language; however, its
design limits its potential as a reliable and high performance systems
language. Unfortunately, not every developer is aware of its
limitations."

As I currently do not have the necessary technical knowledge to
properly evaluate his claims, I thought I would ask those of you who
do.  I have neither the knowledge or boB-hours to write a large
distributed system code base, but I am curious if Python is truly
limited for doing these in the ways he claims.

BTW, I am not trying to start (another) heated, emotional thread.  You
guys do sometimes get carried away!  I honestly just what to know the
truth of the matters out of my continuing to learn Python.  I suspect
there is probably some truth in his claims, but I am not sure if he is
taking things out of their proper application contexts or not.

Thanks!
-- 
boB



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