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Python is not a great productivity language. I find Python less productive than enterprise Java. The tooling in Python is still in the dark ages.



Yeah, although Python was my first language and I used to love it, now I realize it's "the worst of all worlds". It's superficially easy, but it both runs slower than "real" languages and programmer productivity scales much, much worse than them. Of course "real" languages are also a scale and I think they too become worse further the scale. Go, C# and Java are probably around the sweet spot, although I myself prefer stricter languages like OCaml. Definitely something like Haskell is "too much" for my taste, probably will have to try Rust soon to figure out where it stands in my scale.




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