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

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer arj.python at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 08:16:13 EST 2018


have the impression he is not a python coder

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ

On 17 Feb 2018 07:22, "boB Stepp" <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
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