What boggles my mind is that Python has had billions of dollars of direct and indirect investment, with participation from every nook and cranny of the software syndicate—academia and industry—yet... this is all you get.
- it was born 30 years ago in a different time and carry the weight of those decisions and legacy
- it only got serious focus and investments the last decade, while alternative got 100 times more
- "this is all you get" downplay the enormous qualities of python to focus only on what's wrong with it. It never was in a situation to have success by default, it gained market share because it was good. No monopoly on the browser, no jump start at the begining of the web like php, no .net style founding by a giant. Somehow, the author must ignore some inherant good stuff to the language.
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What boggles my mind is that Python has had billions of dollars of direct and indirect investment, with participation from every nook and cranny of the software syndicate—academia and industry—yet... this is all you get.