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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:29:05 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Why does Python get so much hate? It is literally like a Basic programming language. Easy to learn and guaranteed to get a job because of massive demand.

   • hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:33:17 JST hdante

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     @nixCraft what hate ?

   • 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:35:04 JST 𝚝𝚓𝚠

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     @nixCraft I think part of it is people just being weirded out by the white space thing, but it's such a perfect beginner language that's also a professional language.

   • Endark (endark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:46:27 JST Endark

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     @nixCraft it seems to have become the defacto AI language.. not that others can't, but python appears way more common

   • hartbx (hartbx@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 08:59:38 JST hartbx

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     @nixCraft I generally like Python. My main complaint, though, would be that it moves too fast. Old programs may stop working on new pythons, or you may want to run something and it requires a newer language version. There's too much churn in what's otherwise a great lanuage.

   • pr06lefs (pr06lefs@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 09:14:40 JST pr06lefs

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     @nixCraft slow, single threaded, not strictly typed.

   • Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 09:16:54 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     @nixCraft whitespace counts. I don't like languages like that.

   • TruckStopSantaClaus (truckstopsantaclaus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:01:42 JST TruckStopSantaClaus

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     @nixCraft Because it's easy to learn 😌

   • curtosis (curtosis@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:31:13 JST curtosis

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     @nixCraft Because it’s actually not that easy. It has a number of things that *seem* easy but are in fact quite complex for beginners.

     It’s also a complete disaster in terms of dependency management, and has no coherent packaging and distribution story.

   • Zach (hardcoreufo@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 12:07:14 JST Zach

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     @nixCraft Being a hobbiest and coming from C++ I had lots of issues with white spaces.

     Being a long time Linux user I avoid Python apps due to them breaking when the distro inevitably no longer supports the version of Python they were written for.

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 21:27:10 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft Wait, does somebody hate Python?