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Comment by satvikpendem | Hacker News Reader

Why do you hate Python? And what is your opinion on Nim, Crystal, Rust etc?

I don't know exactly why, but whenever I write something in Python I get extremely irritated. I'm always worried that I'm going to clobber the namespace somehow. Some functions like 'str' are extremely short and common, and happens to be a variable I always use for temporary variables. The forced indentation messes up the code when I want to debug something by commenting out a bunch of lines.

But sometimes there is a builtin module that makes something easier to do, so I am faced with a 'Kobayashi Maru', a no-win situation

I've never used Nim or Crystal. Rust is too complicated for me to bootstrap and not particularly compatible with older architectures as far as I remember (I believe had trouble with compiling 32-bit)

FWIW, Nim has various trade offs for you. It has an alternative comment syntax that goes like

    echo 1 #[ deactivated ]#, 2

While `from modA import nil` does exist, it is not very idiomatic. Idiomatic is more managing the global namespace with the type system/overload resolution which it sounds like you would hate. However, shadowing outer scope names with inner scope names (like your `str` example) *is* considered idiomatic.

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