That’s quite a rant with a lot of assumptions. Just about every library has a better API than matplotlib or pandas. Requests has a pretty good API IMO. The team who was responsible for the slow endpoint did investigate dask and alternatives, and they probably will end up on something like spark because they didn’t feel like they have better options. Maybe our team is just stupid and Python isn’t for mere mortals, I don’t know, but I do know that these problems don’t exist in other languages.
> I would certainly hope a minimal HTTP library would be simpler than a suite of functions to manipulate and plot tabular data.
HTTP is pretty complex, but that's neither here nor there. The relevant bit is that there is no domain for which guessing caller intent based on reflection over argument types is appropriate.
> “My application is slow, the language sucks!” Doesn’t indicate a very serious investigation into the problem.
I was pretty explicit above and elsewhere in this thread about why Python's performance is miserable; I'm not sure why you would invoke such a poorly constructed straw man when everyone can look upthread and see my actual arguments.
