Hacker News Reader

Comment by kraf | Hacker News Reader

Maybe "beautifully designed" is a bit much then

In my experience Python is not very nice to work with. I do like the ecosystem for data science though, it's just amazing how much there is. Hopefully the language will grow into something better now that the dictator stepped down.

View on HN

Second this. I can’t understand finding Python beautiful or even elegant. It just took a hodgepodge of features from languages like Haskell and C++, and repackaged them clumsily. It’s good for writing short scripts and throw-away code, but it shouldn’t be used as a serious programming language.

Fixings a lot of the WTFs requires breaking backwards compatibility.

Given how long it took to transition to Python 3 and how painful the transition was, I'm not sure people will have the appetite or patience for this anytime soon.

A lot of them worked that way or similar in Python 2 and basically they are not a bugs, but optimization or just language design decision.

Yeah, I'm relatively new to Python as a JVM dev, but am finding myself (accidentally) in the realm of Data Science/Engineering and am looking to Python as opposed to Scala simply due to better Libraries. I do like that Python is really easy to be productive in, but the challenges of scale I guess will be learned as our team gains experience.

I try to keep my data science work in Python limited to short scripts for reading a csv and then making some matplotlib figures. I personally find it unsuitable for anything beyond that

Reply on news.ycombinator.com