The number one reason I get for people wanting to use Python is that it is "easy to use". Apart from the fact that this is not true, it is also a fallacy that shows a complete lack of understanding of how Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) works. For any serious piece of software that makes it to production, 80% or more of the cost is in the phase after initial development. That's the phase where we run, debug, add features, and refactor. Who cares that the first 20% was twice as fast if the other 80% is a hellhole of debugging and finding problems that any compiler from the 1960s could have caught?
It's just that so many packages for python have been developed practically everything you can think of already has some kind of framework built for it.
I’ve been doing data work for over 20 years now, and been coding for 20 more than that.
Honestly I think ML is vastly overrated. I’ve put together ML projects and watched a LOT of ML teams work on things. It always seems like the effort required is very out of balance with the results. I’m sure there’s a small percentage of ML what’s valuable. But in my experience, most of the time, ML yields very little compared to the effort involved.
I mean you would just interpret python code in python. I've seen it. So yes. At that point, code is just data. It can be in text or byte code if you want.
It's hard ware that gets really angry about self modifying code. And OSs trying to be secure. Because hardware likes to cache text. Python is well abstracted from hardware.
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I'm not much better.
I like D Lang.
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[ + ] AugustineOfHippo2
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i'm kinda sick of hearing how python is so readable and intuitive. really?
https://gist.github.com/RobertAKARobin/a1cba47d62c009a378121398cc5477ea
https://josvisser.substack.com/p/why-python-is-terrible
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Honestly I think ML is vastly overrated. I’ve put together ML projects and watched a LOT of ML teams work on things. It always seems like the effort required is very out of balance with the results. I’m sure there’s a small percentage of ML what’s valuable. But in my experience, most of the time, ML yields very little compared to the effort involved.
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[ - ] CoronaHoax 2 points 8 hoursMay 17, 2025 09:29:12 ago (+2/-0)
Also can’t python technically be modified while it’s running? That’s a pretty key feature for math related programming.
[ + ] bonghits4jeebus
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It's hard ware that gets really angry about self modifying code. And OSs trying to be secure. Because hardware likes to cache text. Python is well abstracted from hardware.