[TriZPUG] 10 Python Myths

[Francois Dion]

For the past several days, there was an interesting thread on a Spanish
python list regarding this blog post. I was under the impression that it
would be easier to find developers in other countries compared to the US,
but the conclusion seemed to be that it was not the case. At least in large
cities with the usual suspects having offices there. Explains to a certain
degree why I'm getting offers on linkedin from europe and latin america...

Francois

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:

> On 12/17/2014 9:30 AM, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>
>> https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/12/10/10-
>> myths-of-enterprise-python/
>>
>
> Thanks. I have to admit, I had not heard of most of these "myths." I'm
> glad to hear they are just myths. :) But there's a whole lot of good
> information in that article.
>
> I'd heard Python is slow and doesn't have good concurrency support. And
> the article has great answers for those. I'll add that for a few months
> last year some people were saying Julia would replace Python for array math
> applications because of speed. But now Numba (a numpy replacement) is
> actually faster than Julia.
>
> I'd also heard Python was weakly typed. But only third hand. I'd never And
> obviously misinformed. But I'd never heard it in person. The rest of the
> myths made me think, "There are people who think that? Really?" I think
> when you get in a development shop where there are a lot of competing
> technologies, you run across people who will say anything to try to make
> their choices look good by spreading FUD about the choices of others.
>
> I think the positive about Python, rather than a myth, is that you can do
> more with Python in far less learning and development time. The article
> states that repeatedly.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
> UNC Renaissance Computing Institute
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