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Really surprised at the amount of hate for Python significant indentation. I've only used Python a little, and I expected to hate that too, but found it wasn't really so bad. I thought my experience was pretty common, and that by now most people either thought it was a great idea or at least found it tolerable. But "it was a bad idea" is currently favored 43 to 5. Maybe not many Pythonistas have seen this page yet.

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In my opinion not many Python programmers care for places like stackoverflow, as the language itself has excelent infrastructure to deal with problems and to get ones questions answered quickly without bothering other people. Maybe that's why the vote is so high there.

Everyone working with Python a little while won't even think about indentation anymore, it just comes natural. It's not a big deal.

Python is often made out in discussions like that to be for begginners only and only amateurs would use it because its slow, not concurrent etc... The truth though is that YouTube, Reddit, Dropbox, Spotify, Discuss, Google, Nasa and many other "real" professionals use Python in a big way.

I tend to ignore such trolls.

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